Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

To meet at all, one must open ones eyes to another; and there is no true conversation no matter how many words are spoken, unless the eye, unveiled and listening, opens itself to the other.

The sick soon come to understand that they live in a different world from that of the well and that the two cannot communicate.

People who keep journals have life twice

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.