I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

Neuroimaging is the politics of pictured reality.

Beloved, there is no way to measure the continuing influence of one godly mother.

... I didn't know whether to feel angry at her for making me part of her suicide or just to feel angry at myself for letting her go.

Warriors want a worthy opponent. There is no redress in fighting the pathetic.

Did you stop because it was good enough, or could have done more - but then maybe ruined it too? Sometimes you finish because you've gone too far.

Children should be taught to question everything . . . everything they read and everything they hear.

I am not going to make promises I can't keep. I am not going to talk about big ideas like single-payer and then not level with people about how much it will cost.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.

Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.