All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows.

Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final

Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad.

Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation.

This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly.

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.

I felt tears pricking inside my eyelids. Maybe I came first With Oliver.

Beware of advice—even this.

Sorry I have no space left for advice. Just do it.

I laughed more in the hospital than I ever have in my life, making fun of all the weird things that were happening to me.

On a surface level, regionalism is gone, if we define regionalism as human culture. But, what if we define regionalism as something older than human culture?

Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

We are eager to believe that others are flawed because we are eager to believe in what we wish for.

Too many simple green salads suffer from a lack of imagination.

My style as a human being is to indulge people who need to escape, yet I insist on confronting them as a playwright. It's quite embarrassing, it's quite unpleasant, it's quite awkward.