The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.

Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights; the accumulations of a lifetime gather there

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

Fragile creatures of a small blue planet, surrounded by light years of silent space.

Confidence and superiority: It's the usual fundamentalist stuff: I've got the truth, and you haven't.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.