With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.
Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.
Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.
If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
He asked if he could recite a poem he had written that morning: 'You speak,' he said, 'the language of shooting stars, more surprising than sunrise, more brilliant than the sun, as brief as sunset. I want to follow its trail to eternity.