A fictionalised memoir of my father would be a failure as a novel.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Your body is molecular structure your body is a massive energy at a very high speed of vibration.

There are people who want to be everywhere at once and they get nowhere.

We cannot create jobs without company owners, the state cannot create jobs by decree.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

Faith has nothing to do with circumstances, it deals entirely with the Word of God.

She had for so many years been trying to be like other people, that she was now like nothing in heaven or earth.

Say this city has ten million souls, Some are living in mansions, some are living in holes: Yet there’s no place for us, my dear, yet there’s no place for us.

Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, To signify thou camest to bite the world.