“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are.”

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.”

“The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested so much within oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.”

“Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.”

“True emptiness is not empty, but contains all things. The mysterious and pregnant void creates and reflects all possibilities. From it arises our individuality, which can be discovered and developed, although never possessed or fixed.”