Occupation: Novelist Birth: June 28, 1947
In daily life language is important, if not in itself, then as a symptom..
Justice can sleep for years and awaken when it is least expected. A miracle is nothing more than dormant justice from another time arriving to compen….
It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season….
and even when I was broken the way sometimes one can be broken, and even though I had fallen, I found upon arising that I was stronger than before, t….
How the holy and the profane mix in the light of day and at the end of life is sometimes the most beautiful thing in this world and a compassionate e….
If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal..
There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than an….
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always he….
And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and th….
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come to possess it in its entirety and….
And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful..
To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, ….
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only architecture, the only color, the only sound--whe….
That's what the left is always doing. They have an ideal, and they want people to conform to it. When people don't conform to it, they end up being b….
I saw how greatly he suffered the requirement of being clever. It separated him from his soul, and it didn't get him anything other than a living.
We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, the….
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without ….
The treasures of the earth were movement, courage, laughter and love..
As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the d….
There's an expression in Yiddish, which is "der gelernte naar" - a "learned fool." You can know a great deal, you can have a Ph.D., and you can still….
Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression..