And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.

It is thanks to my evening reading alone that I am still more or less sane.

We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.

By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment

I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that one's own wretched heart is still aglow.

We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.

We all have appointments with the past.

I believe that the black-and-white photograph, or rather the gray zones in the black-and-white photograph, stand for this territory that is located between life and death.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.

Never judge anyone by the choices they've made, because you never know they might have selected the best option out of two bad choices.

Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it

I teach that we must go beyond pure ego-consciousness and move to a new manifestation of energy karma force.

A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

It's always unfortunate when a reporter is sent behind bars for failing to turn over sources. There's no way to say what the long-term outcome will be.

When I was younger I spent way too much time thinking about me being too fat. So stupid.

And I made a rural pen, And I stained the water clear, And I wrote my happy songs Every Child may joy to hear.