Dreams are debris from bad day. Dreams are poems by bad poets that never got written.

The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Yes, I am confusing literature with life. I'm declaring my own ordinary life to be a work of literature.

She smelled like water that had been warmed by the sun, and she also had the sharp, enticing aroma of birch leaves.

When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

There must exist a paradigm, a practical model for social change that includes an understanding of ways to transform consciousness that are linked to efforts to transform structures.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

There is no final stage in nirvana. Nirvana is beyond definition. It is not quantifiable.

Better a bare foote then none.

The great actresses and actors receive awards for great roles in great films.

I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it.

I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in the book. Like a piece of music with themes, etc.

We can sometimes recognize the looks of a century ago on a modern face; but never those of a century to come.