The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

And love will simply have no choice but to go into battle with space and time, and furthermore, to win.

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

To ask questions of the universe, and then learn to live with those questions, is the way he achieves his own identity.

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.