There are no inanimate objects.

I made the mistake of thinking that if you add up the past, you sum up the future; I forgot how frequently life astonishes us.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Autobiography is a preemptive strike against biographers.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.