Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

I'm a vague conjunctured personality more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.

Truth exists. Only lies are invented.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.

If a woman is wearing the burqa, it's not her wish. It's more that she feels secure from the Taliban, secure from acid if she were to show her face.

I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.

Very few [doctors] are men of science in any very serious sense; they're men of technique.

I've found that musical theater is my passion.