Humankind is never what he is but the self he seeks.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.

In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me.

But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

Your energy of love is so powerful that it can heal anything, including your future.

Nor will I be using any imagery that mocks Jesus Christ.

Emotionally, I feel mostly out-of-depth, like I will never quite learn how to be what I should be. And that makes me feel pretty vulnerable a lot of the time.

I think my work is very difficult to understand. Sometimes people do and sometimes they don't. I can't do much about that.

You don't have to be anyone special to achieve something big. You just have to want to do it.

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

He was like a second father to me (of George Halas)