It's unnecessary and destructive to think of oneself at all. People ask me, 'What do you think of yourself as?' My answer is, 'Nothing.

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

Life is lived only once. And the less seriously the better.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

The sky hides the night behind it and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above.

A black star appears, a point of darkness in the night sky's clarity. Point of darkness and gateway to repose. Reach out, pierce the fine fabric of the sheltering sky, take repose.

Security is a false God. Begin to make sacrifices to it and you are lost.

Illness reduces man to his basic state: a cloaca in which the chemical processes continue. The meaningless hegemony of the involuntary.

The only effort worth making is the one it takes to learn the geography of one's own nature.

She was saved from prettiness by the intensity of her gaze.

If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.

Truth is a bubble and hard to hold on to.

What I really want to tell him is to pick up that baby of his and hold her tight, to set the moon on the edge of her crib and to hang her name up in the stars.

I don't need you because I want to save you. I want to save you because I need you to save me.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

True affluence is to not need anything.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.

For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.

I have to be more assertive-I have take more control at crunch time.