Occupation: Writer Birth: May 17, 1957
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself..
When my mother didn't come back I realized that any moment could be the last. Nothing in life should simply be a passage from one place to another. E….
The motive for our actions doesn't lie ahead of us. It's something behind us that we're trying to escape..
Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing somethin….
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language..
Never do I close my door behind me without being conscious that I am carrying out an act of charity towards myself..
..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary..
Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one..
She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created..
I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps..
He boils milk with fresh ginger, a quarter of a vanilla bean, and tea that is so dark and fine-leaved that it looks like black dust. He strains it an….
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror..
Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the i….
Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discrete, extraordinary moments. Maybe falling in love, ….
The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain..
There's a widespread notion that children are open, that the truth about their inner selves just seeps out of them. That's all wrong. No one is more ….
It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly..
I have sat in the dark and looked at them both, the child and the woman. And the feeling has become too much. It is not sorrow or joy; it is the weig….
It's these small differences in people's karma that determine if we get up or remain lying on the ground..
Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions..
Falling in love has been greatly overrated. Falling in love consists of 45 percent fear of not being accepted, 45 percent manic hope that this time t….