It is hard going to the door cut so small in the wall where the vision which echoes loneliness brings a scent of wild flowers in the wood.

The awful thing, as a kid reading, was that you came to the end of the story, and that was it. I mean, it would be heartbreaking that there was no more of it.

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

I know this body is impatient. I know I constitute only a meager voice and mind. Yet I loved, I love. I want no sentimentality. I want no more than home.

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.

I heard words and words full of holes aching.

I will go to the garden. I will be a romantic. I will sell myself in hell, in heaven also I will be.

For love - I would split open your head and put a candle in behind the eyes.

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.

Communication is mutual feeling with someone, not a didactic process of information.

A few blossoms float into the room. They drop like frayed yellow ribbons on the gray carpet.

Always move towards the light even if you stumble on your path cause it casts a shadow on the miseries of our past.

We are content with the 'given' in sensation's quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

I'm a golfer not a history major.

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight

People think my work is therapeutic. I don't see it that way. It's not like I'm saving money from a weekly therapy visit by writing down my life.

The family exists in order to allow women to have children and to have the protection of a male who takes care of them.

The prohibition of L'shon Hara is the Jewish equivalent of the Buddhist practice of Right Speech.