A truly living human being cannot remain neutral..

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

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

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

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others.

Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it..

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

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone..

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

Books dont need batteries.

The facts are always less than what really happened..

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….

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….

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.

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….

Writing is making sense of life..

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….

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice..

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

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

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