We live in a material world, not a dramatic one.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

The freedom he gave himself to work and change shape and change ideas and work all the time with joy, the joy of painting was in [Publo] Picasso, which I found beautiful.

I don't look my age, I don't feel my age and I don't act my age. To me age is just a number.

i feel like a curtain has dropped away and i'm seeing people for who they really are, different, and sharp, and unknowable.

Why be influenced by a person when you already are one?

There are many of us who should be in a position to bring peace to the world.

I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.