Truth should not be forced; it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

All blessings are mixed blessings.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

We are living in a world in which we don't give the young enough reason to live. The temper and the lyrics of a lot of punk music and so on is very, life sucks and then you die, sort of theory. I feel life is cheaper and death is more attractive now than it was when I was an adolescent, as I remember. Suicide was a personal pathology when it was committed. There was no society approval of it, like there certainly is in Palestine and some quarters of Iraq.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.