Time is the longest distance between two places.

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

I suppose I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Religion is to mysticism what popularization is to science.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

May my silences become more accurate.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the change to work hard at work worth doing.

Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.