Being lonely and loving your own company are two very different things. Don't ever get them mixed up.

your voice is a place i want to take shelter in, a place that makes me feel safe and soft.

I am no longer a writer. Just an emotion. An emotion that is unable to stay within its own body, and is therefore, trying to make its way into yours.

Everything is art and it's part of the painting. (To talk with somebody it's art, to understand a language is art, to understand a book is art, to understand somebody is art...)

Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?

Kindness and patience were always called for.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

A useful word previously unknown to me: 'ergophobia', meaning 'fear or hatred of work'. At last I can define myself in one word.

The more we split and pulverise matter artificially, the more insistently it proclaims its fundamental unity.

Everything is on a reduced scale here in the Polar regions; we can't afford to be extravagant.

It is, all in all, a historic error to believe that the master makes the school; the students make it!

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.