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.

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

The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

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

No matter what the subject, the subject is always love.

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

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.