“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.”

“All actual life is encounter.”

“We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.”

“Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.”

“Trust, trust in the world, because this human being exists - that is the most inward achievement of the relation in education. Because this human being exists, meaninglessness, however hard pressed...”

“When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.”

“Dialogic is not to be identified with love. But love without dialogic, without real outgoing to the other, reaching to the other, the love remaining with itself - this is called Lucifer.”

“I wore only black socks, because I had heard that white ones were the classic sign of the American tourist. Black ones though,- those'll fool 'em. I supposed I hoped the European locals' conversati...”

“The Lord of Rags and Tatters.”