Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing...

It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for...

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for...

The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

My ideas usually come not at my desk writing but in the midst of living.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.