Anything I've done up till 27 May 1999 was kind of an illusion, existing without living. My daughter, the birth of my daughter, gave me life.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where the smiles have been.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

True spirituality has its basis in moral life, which in turn is based on contem-plation.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The future is the shape of things to come.

Don't let making a living prevent you from making a life.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

Sometimes - history needs a push.

I can't help thinking that there are only one or two ways of being brought into this world, but there are so many fucked-up ways of leaving it.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed

I can't wait to figure out what is wrong with me, so I can say this is the way that I used to be.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.

We think too much and feel too little.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

A tragedy means always a man's struggle with that which is stronger than man.