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The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.

When you live in a country where your own language is considered foreign, you can feel a continuous sense of estrangement. You speak a secret, unknown language, lacking any correspondence to the environment. An absence that creates a distance within you.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.

For this reason, strangers are not really conceived as individuals, but as strangers of a particular type: the element of distance is no less general in regard to them than the element of nearness.

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.