With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.

We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

A child who is born is something to seek out, something to search for, a star, a northern light, a column of energy in the universe. And a child who dies-that's an abomination.

To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

Deep within every blind, absolute love grows a hatred toward the beloved, who now holds the only existing key to happiness

Every theoretical explanation is a reduction of intuition.

Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.

What I learned from the flowers: to live effortlessly.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

On my best days, such as when I was a junior in high school coming off a 42-point performance and near triple-double, my dad was there to tell me I haven't arrived yet and bring me back to reality.

Let freedom never perish in your hands.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt.

Make no conditions and none will be imposed.