Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
Writing is the enemy of forgetfulness, of thoughtlessness. For the writer there is no oblivion. Only endless memory.
Great writers are the saints for the godless.
Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
