Looking repeatedly into the past you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

I don't write about what I know: I write in order to find out what I know.

People come and go in life, but they never leave your dreams. Once they're in your subconscious, they are immortal.

Prayer as focus is not a way of limiting what can be seen; it is a habit of attention brought to bear on all that is.

We only store in memory images of value. To write about one's life is to live it twice, and the second time is both spiritual and historical.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Memory is, first, a captivating mystery.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

True memoir is written, like all literature, in an attempt to find not only a self but a world

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

And me, I know that there is a god. Cause I know who god is.

A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.

There are those without decency who must be fought without hesitation, without pity.

Every element has a sound, an original sound from the order of God; all those sounds unite like the harmony from harps and zithers.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

And if you don´t commit? I asked. Your choice. But you miss what´s on the other side. What´s on the other side? "Ah" he smiled. "A happiness you cannot find alone

Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within.