The real trap of fame is its irresistibility.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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