No nostalgia is felt as keenly as nostalgia for things that never existed.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

I can imagine her memories of the novel, or, more likely, of who she was and how she felt when reading it.

She felt the intimate loss of who was meant to become.

The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.

Memory chooses to preserve what desire cannot hope to sustain.

We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.

He may be my half brother, but we're not related. A chasm of incommunicable worlds lies between us.

My features have blunted with the passage of time, my reflection only faintly resembles how I see myself. Gravity demands payback for the years my body has resisted it.

I also understand that you have to lie to yourself to survive in a bad marriage, you have to delude yourself if you want to carry on in this life.

You will be happy, when you connect to the source of life, God.

There is a cosmic law which says that every satisfaction must be paid for with a dissatisfaction.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

Beyond living and dreaming there is something more important: waking up.

Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of mind offer you a much more accurate picture of reality.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

Empathy is the starting point for creating a community and taking action. It’s the impetus for creating change.

It was hard to love my wife and kids because I was all wrapped up in loving only myself. I did what I wanted, when I wanted, without any real concern for them.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.