It's better to have nothing, ' the children were saying.

Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it.

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

Of my conception I know only what you know of yours. It occurred in darkness and I was unconsenting... By some bleak alchemy what had been mere unbeing becomes death when life is mingled with it.

I have never distinguished readily between thinking and dreaming. I know my life would be much different if I could ever say, This I have learned from my senses, while that I have merely imagined.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.

But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth.

I've never discussed my writing with others much, but I don't believe it can do any harm. I don't think that there's any risk that ideas or materials will evaporate.

I've had a number of opportunities to hear Andrei Ryabov perform and I am amazed at the high level of creativity, technique and freshness in his playing.

You want to make your own decisions, but you ought to make those decisions with an eternal perspective.

It's a short step from the belief that every child should be wanted to the belief that a child exists to satisfy our wants.

My religion is the Earth, man. I believe in trees.

When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.

Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.