“One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.”

“For clearly it is impossible to touch eternity with one hand and life with the other.”

“No object has ever had the experience of being touched.”

“Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others.”

“If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything.”

“The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”

“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”

“There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.”

“These dimensions impinge on one another. They touch. They interpenetrate. And where one dimension touches or passes through another, it forms a line of force on the landscape.”

“The sea — this truth must be confessed — has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”