Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.

It makes me realise that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy. I still have things to learn.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

And when the sun goes down and the mood comes upon me, I'll watch the play of the colors on the water, yield to the fleetly dissolving images, and turn into pure feeling, all soft and nice.

Art is uncompromising, and life is full of compromises.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

An empty bus hurtles through the starry night Perhaps the driver is singing and happy because he sings.

Who can deny that the environment has been destroyed?

On sorrow floats laughter.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Lucy settled into August's kitchen as if they were a family.

I am a hoarder of words, a giver of them, too

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don’t want to be in his line of sight when he does.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.

Every long travel changes man!

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

Government has a role as well in what is referred to as redistributive justice.