To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

What if our common sense has been negatively influenced by our addiction to comfort?

Faith is a total attitude of the self.

Give yourself entirely to God, enter and hide in the hidden ground of your soul.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable

Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.

I'm very simple. I'm not for the flashes, I'm not for glitz and glamour, you know.

Practice is not about how you feel while you are doing it. You are planting seeds.

It's easier to stay in shape than to fluctuate.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.