she had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love.

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

It’s your action that reflects on the others’ reaction. If you expect good you are forced to be good.

It is obviously possible that what we call waking life may only be an unusual and persistent nightmare.

If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

But no one ever is allowed in Sleepytown, unless He goes to bed in time to take the Sleepytown Express!

You can't get a dolphin. What are you gonna do, like, put it in your pool?

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

I've been to Mar-a-Lago. I'm not going to Trump Tower.

One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.