Whatever you describe to another person is also a revelation of who you are and who you think you are. You can not describe anything without betraying your point of view, your aspirations, your fears, your hopes. Everything.

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

When human rights are abused on a grand scale, the broth of purity boils and feeds the rebellion of a new order.

One can only face in others what one can face in oneself.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.