Be careful how you talk about God. He's the only God we have. If you let him go he won't come back. He won't even look back over his shoulder. And then what will you do?

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ... at any time.

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett. He's unique. He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.

I never think of myself as wise. I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence which I intend to allow to operate.

Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

In what he suffered, as in all true suffering and in true joy, there was the quality of eternity. He could not believe it would ever end.

The engine of capitalist patriarchy runs on the dirty fuel of women’s shame.

Anything can happen at anytime. Safety is not guaranteed. There's more to life than being alive.

The most effective coquetry is innocence.

We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state ...

Our poetry now is the realization that we possess nothing. Anything therefore is a delight (since we do not posses it) and thus need not fear its loss.

Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.

The man from whom the joys of life have departed is living no more, but should be counted with the dead.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.