Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

Words are a form of action, capable of influencing change.

There are plenty of alcoholics who can be magnificent when drunk: it does not make them any less alcoholic.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

Even the most ordinary life is a mystery if you look close enough.

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make your mind start vibrating like a jackhammer, the ones that you 'come to terms with' only to discover that they are still there.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.