Life is an endless, truly endless struggle. There's no time when we're going to arrive at a plateau where the whole thing gets sorted. It's a struggle in the way every plant has to find it's own way to stand up straight. A lot of the time it's a failure. And yet it's not a failure if some enlightenment comes from it.

Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

An idol tells people exactly what to believe, God presents them with choices they have to make for themselves. The difference is far from insignificant; before the idol men remain dependent children, before God they are burdened and at the same time liberated to participate in the decisions of endless creation.

I think the job of the artist is to remind people of what they have chosen to forget.

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.

I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another. I have no tongue for it.