All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn.

Another person's illness is often harder to bear than one's own.

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Real worship involves waiting.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

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.