That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

When adults wage war, children perish.

Refugee today means somebody who has no home. No homeland. No security. No government to protect him or her. And it is of course one feels not only uprooted, one feels useless. One feels always surrounded by hostile forces. Arousing suspicion.

The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.