1. “Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying ordinary words something extraordinary.”
2. “Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.”
3. “The whole of life is symbolic because the whole of it has meaning.”
4. “Salvation lie not in the faithfulness to forms, but in the liberation from them.”
5. “An unshared happiness is not happiness.”
6. “Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don’t love it sufficiently.”
7. “Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
8. “Failure to love is almost like murder.”
9. “Man is born live, not to prepare for life.”
10. “The most extraordinary discoveries are made when the artist is overwhelmed by what he has to say.”
11. “We’re all time’s captives, hostage to eternity.”
12. “Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.”
13. “We must discover security within ourselves.”
14. “Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.”
15. “No bad man can be a good poet.”
