Tell me, he said, "What is this thing about time? Why is it better to be late than early? People are always saying, we must wait, we must wait. what are they waiting for?" "Well […] I guess people wait in order to make sure of what they feel." "And when you have waited—-has it made you sure?

Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know.

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the end of safety.