If my phrases shock the reader, that only shows it is high time he or she was shocked.

When Man realizes his littleness, his greatness can appear. But not before.

Charity is fortune, avarice is poverty, peace is treasure, and happiness is wealth.

The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability.

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age and size of the universe.

Youth is the spring-time of life. It is the time to acquire information, so that we may show it off in after years and paralyze people with what we know.

I found motherhood a crash course in existentialism (what is my purpose in life, am I mistress or slave of my destiny, when the hell do I get some sleep?) and [the book] ROOM was the result.

A photo is a creation.

As a young concert-going person, I was never enamoured with celebrities who would walk out to feature in certain songs and then walk off.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

Never pursue literature as a trade.