"I don't want to consider it a misfortune that it's turned out this way, on the contrary, despite all the emotion I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we…"

"There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way."

"To the best of my knowledge, those words mean 'I seek, I pursue, my heart is in it.'"

"The walls pale lilac, the floor in a broken and faded red, the chairs and the bed chrome yellow, the pillows and the sheet very pale lemon."

"Next, I'm attempting to do dusty thistles with a great swarm of butterflies swirling above them."