Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Why is love intensified by absence?

In fact, being a unique individual is as much of a farce as trying to be like everyone else. Maybe more.

The church and the scientific community are fighting at times a common enemy: the truth religion cannot deny and the positivist materialist scientist is unable to explain.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.

Prayer, study, and suffering make a pastor.

I don't think it's very useful to open wide the door for young artists; the ones who break down the door are more interesting.

You cannot help the world by focusing on the negative things. As you focus on the world's negative events, you not only add to them, but you also bring more negative things into your own life.

Some rather seek up high Than dig and grind that inner truth

An innocent bureaucratic snafu.

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!