Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything

Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Chair or no chair: a binary relation. But the vicissitudes of moving the body around are infinite. You never know what a person in a chair can do.

Around you move many seas. It is impossible not to drown a little.

If you think something's happened quickly, you're looking at only a part of it.

Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.

The catalog of emotion that disappears when someone dies, and the degree to which we rely on a few people to record something of what life was to them, is almost too much to bear.

The more you talk about something, the less accurate it gets.

I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.

This is suffering's lesson: pay attention. The important part might come in a form you do not recognize.

Time doesn't heal all wounds, only distance can lessen the sting of them.

One did not love revolution. One embraced it with horror for the sake of the deliverance to follow.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.

[The media can be] the greatest force for peace on the earth [for] it is how we come to understand each other.

The good news is that you don't have to stop thoughts completely to meditate. It takes a long time to stop thought impeccably. What you need is to detach yourself from thought.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I don't preach or try to impress my views upon people.

History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

If you say something, then it exposes you.