Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented culture but to an open form of expression.

There are not millions of deaths. It happens millions of times that someone dies.

Do what your inner soul tells you to do, regardless of any money or success it will bring you.

I love rains which carry desires to oceans.

The books I'm writing are houses that I build for myself.

I always had a few people who liked what I did, and that was enough.

Not seeing rivers is also another way of dying.

There is in Ammiel Alcalay’s work an unabashed tenderness for the world as it is, and that makes him courageous, different.

if you aren't here your heart won't break in the same way.

say what the masses want just to win the masses and never do what the masses want and you will loose the masses

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

I have to say that some philosophers such as the late Bernard Williams, and I would include myself in this group, would say that tranquillity is overrated as the goal of life.

We are so very 'umble.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

By the way, Marilyn Monroe was a size 14.

I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.

I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.

I don't remember writing anything until I wrote my college application.