An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

if you understand something, you don't forgive it, you are the thing itself: forgiveness is for what you don't understand.

But it isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying. They are refusing emotion because at the end of very emotion are property, money, power. They work and despise their work, and so freeze themselves. They love but know that it's a half- love or a twisted love, and so they freeze themselves.

It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed. It is the storyteller, the dream-maker, the myth-maker, that is our phoenix, that represents us at our best, and at our most creative.

Living in a small town anywhere means preserving one's self behind a mask.

How boring these emotions are that we're caught in and can't get free of, no matter how much we want to.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.