I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.

But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

May the Lord comfort the afflicted souls.

I could never live happily in Africa-or anywhere else-until I could live freely in Mississippi.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.

Look up on high, and thank the God of all.

I thought: to be tough is to be fragile; to be tender is to be truly fierce.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

I am not the captain of my ship. My ship is out there, but I don't have my course. You never know in this business.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see.

There is no such thing as a publishable first draft.