I don't know how to hate

My whole marriage to her, I finally realized, was a placeholder, leading me to this very day.

One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.

Life sustains itself. Let go of the ego and life takes care of itself through you.

It is the savor of bread broken with comrades that makes us accept the values of war.

The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.

Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.

In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

The peoples of the earth are one family.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.