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.

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.

The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

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

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

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

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.