Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.

When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.

Home is where somebody notices when you are no longer there.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Belief and delusion are incestuous siblings.

I am itching to criticize some well-regarded writers' works, but I am not doing it because I am perfectly aware that my critique could easily be reduced to envy or just plain meanness.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

You don't want your neurosurgeon to have doubts about the meaning of it all while he or she is operating on your brain.

If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

Some people won't love you, no matter what you do. Some people won't STOP loving you, no matter what you do. Go where the lov

I don't turn to anyone for advice. I do what I want.

Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find the bread.

Vodou is one of the religions practiced in Haiti, a rich religion for the people.

If you want to demoralize somebody's spirit, you take away their hope.

It can't hurt, publicity is publicity, controversy and all that, it's all good.

Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.

Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."

A narrow vision is divisive, a broad vision expansive. But a divine vision is all-inclusive.