Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Love is injustice, but justice doesn't suffice.

We are like he who the gods have condemned to push the boulder up the hill only to watch it roll back down.

I opened myself up to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself.

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. One can no longer cheat—hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone).

The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.