Rainer Maria Rilke

There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.

Deep down, there is in the substance of the cosmos a primordial disposition, sui generis, for self-arrangement and self-involution.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.