Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

There are those who have a desire to love, but do not have the capacity to love.

Breathing is the greatest pleasure in life

Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else.

It's the soul that's starving, not the body

This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.

As long as we have our stories there is hope.

Technique is nothing more than failed style.

Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

America hasn't been leading anything. We have been blamed the last eight years [2008-2016]. The United States has been nothing special about us. American exceptionalism was mocked and laughed at.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.