"You can sow the seeds of distrust everywhere, and lose yourself in an overgrown field."

"The sun shocked me, and made me sicken, yet how I wanted it, how I longed for it, and yet it rebuked me and seemed to scourge me as if it were a whip."

"What am I? Do I live? Or am I walking always in death, forever in love with time?"

"I think you're like a man who loses an arm or a leg and keeps insisting that he can feel pain where the arm or leg used to be."

"Good was above all kind; it was to be gentle. It was to waste nothing. It was to paint, to read, to study, to listen."

"But remember the overall lesson, that your love for others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters."

"It was as if this night were only one of thousands of nights, world without end, night curving into into night to make a great arching line of which I couldn't see the end, a night in which I roamed alone under cold, mindless stars."

"For what can the damned really have to say to the damned?"

"Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds -justifications, confirmations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner."

"Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult."