Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

I have used the word "attention," which I borrow from Simone Weil, to express the idea of a just and loving gaze directed upon individual reality. I believe this to be the characteristic and proper mark of the active moral agent.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

We are all prisoner, but the name of our cure is not freedom

Art is brief. (Not in a temporal sense.) [...] Words are for concealment. Art is concealment.

Marriage isn't a tram. It doesn't have to get anywhere.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.