"Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death."
"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
"The only abnormality is the incapacity to love."
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
