Endings are elusive, middles are nowhere to be found, but worst of all is to begin, to begin, to begin.

Anathematization of the world is not an adequate response to the world.

The task is not so much to solve problems as to propose questions.

Is death that which gives meaning to life?

We are what we have been told about ourselves. We are the sum of the messages we have received. The true messages. The false messages.

Maybe writing can't be taught, but editing can be taught—prayer, fasting and self-mutilation.

Succeed! It has been done, and with a stupidity that can astound the most experienced.