Books dont need batteries.

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer..

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever..

In a democracy - even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-?litist one - the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a w….

What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the pers….

Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place– a single book written from di….

what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of orde….

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is..

Sentiment is for those who don't know what to do next..

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice..

Newspapers are horror happening to other people..

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.

Nothing fades so quickly as what is unchanged..

A desert is a place without expectation..

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid..

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral..

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter..

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped..

I cannot live with someone who can't live without me..

The facts are always less than what really happened..