If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we are also per….

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and h….

Truth is a nebulous thing. There are certain, definite truths, but the truth of our lives goes far beyond facts..

Don’t worry about being good…. Aspire to be authentic..

It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names..

I was giving up. I would have given up - if a voice hadn't made itself heard in my heart. The voice said "I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it….

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction..

I suppose in the end, the whole of life becomes an act of letting go, but what always hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye..

To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation..

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, ….

Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preo….

I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it..

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediate….

If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain….

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and….

The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar..

If you stumble about believability, what are you living for? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God ….

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It ….

I had to stop hoping so much that a ship would rescue me. I should not count on outside help. Survival had to start with me. In my experience, a cast….

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go..

Survival starts by paying attention to what is close at hand and immediate. To look out with idle hope is tantamount to dreaming one's life away..