I'm a candle flame that sways in currents of air you can't see. You need to be the one who steadies me to burn..

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

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

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

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….

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

My answer is: Recognize yourself in others.

There is no moral authority like that of sacrifice..

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….

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

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral..

Keenness of hearing revives when one is alone..

Books dont need batteries.

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

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

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

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

Everyone ends up moving alone towards the self.

The facts are always less than what really happened..