Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We kno….

What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation..

The family is the cradle of the world's misinformation..

I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version..

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love ….

Maybe when we die, the first thing we'll say is 'I know this feeling. I was here before'..

The greater the scientific advance, the more primitive the fear..

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams.

Pain is just another form of information..

No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal ….

Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live..

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive..

I've got death inside me. It's just a question of whether or not I can outlive it..

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking, feeling, lost i….

Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do….

I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble..

You have to break through the structure of your own stonework habit just to make yourself listen..

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory..

We seem to believe it is possible to ward off death by following rules of good grooming..

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever..

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us. In the end, writers will write not to b….