Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

It's dangerous to watch staggering butterflies. They have a plan but it has no meaning.

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely, and for little if any reward.

The desire to avoid short-term hardships leads to major dislocations in [housing] markets.

We create our fate every day we live.

I love the Instamatic application on my I phone, it takes the coolest photos.

I am deeply stoned on the intoxicating effects of [Country Music.]

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

I talk because I feel, and I talk to you because I want you to know how I feel.

That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined. Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.