Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.

Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve.

Go for long walks, indulge in hot baths, Question your assumptions, be kind to yourself, live for the moment, loosen up, scream, curse the world, count your blessings, Just let go, Just be.

There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

Bookish people, who are often maladroit people, persist in thinking they can master any subtlety so long as it's been shaped into acceptable expository prose.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Anyone's childhood can be an act of disablement if rehearsed and replayed and squinted at in a certain light. . .

The scolding voice is her own, so abrasive and quick, yet so powerless to move her.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

When we accomplish one thing, our ego wants to bask in the glory, though our soul is ready to move on to the next.

It takes grace to endure hardtimes

Nature is usually wrong.

God does not exist to answer our prayers but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

Greece is a pillar of peace and security in a region where stabilization is on the growth.

That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright, But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight.

When executives lead as teachers, stewards, and designers, they fill roles that are much more subtle and long-term than those of power-wielding hierarchical leaders.

Once I was chased by the king of all scorpions. I have the most notorious animal stories.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

You learn that existence is legible but that you have to have a critical mind if you're going to read it.