“No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities..”

“A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.”

“Tearless grief bleeds inwardly”

“There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.”

“Our first and last love is self-love.”

“Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”