"Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic."
"People living deeply have no fear of death."
"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."
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
"Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat."