Man cannot live by profit alone.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

You don't need numbers; you need passion, and this is proven by the history of the world!

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.