There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down..

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….

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….

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

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

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

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..

And what's the point of waking up in the morning if you don't try to match the enormousness of the known forces in the world with something powerful ….

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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

Pain is just another form of information..

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….

That's why people take vacations. No to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things..

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..