Perhaps I had inadvertently brushed up against the Buddhist axiom, that enlightenment is the ultimate disappointment.

After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

102. After my friend's accident I take care of her. It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

Mostly I have felt myself becoming a servant of sadness. I am still looking for the beauty in that.

It will not say, 'Isn't X beautiful?' Such demands are murderous to beauty.

It is always taking care, but it is difficult, because at times to take care of her is also to cause her pain.

This is generous, for to be close to her pain has always felt like a privilege to me, even though pain could be defined as that which we typically aim to avoid.

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

I am trying to talk about what blue means, or what it means to me, apart from meaning.

Do not, however, make the mistake of thinking that all desire is yearning.

We don't get to choose what or whom we love, I want to say. We just don't get to choose.

The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.

My library is filled with UN condemnations.

The plain fact is: religion must die for mankind to live.

I love being creative, and for me it doesn't matter what it is - whether it's art or music or just daydreaming.

You can either look at things in a brutal, truthful way that's depressing, or you can screw around and have fun.

The more truly we can see life as a fairytale, the more clearly the tale resolves itself into war with the dragon who is wasting fairyland.

XM radio doesn't have commercials, so after about thirty minutes of listening to it, I'm like, "What should I buy?"

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

It is sufficient for you that the one who envies you is distressed at the time of your joy.