We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

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 each person.

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing.

Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.

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 each person.

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

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.