“All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.”

“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”

“Give me life, give me pain, give me myself again.”

“Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged!
Give me my sin again.”

“If God gives me a long life and allows me to carry out my task, then Brussels will become a city of exceptional category.”

“Give me, give me God's own country! there to live and there to die”

“To me, God is the accumulated wisdom I've gathered throughout my life. When I pay attention, my body gives me a printout of this wisdom.”

“Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but "for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles."”

“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.”

“I give the fight up: let there be an end,
A privacy, an obscure nook for me.
I want to be forgotten even by God.”