The day before is what we bring to the day we're actually living through, life is a matter of carrying along all those days-before just as someone might carry stones, and when we can no longer cope with the load, the work is done, the last day is the only one that is not the day before another day.

Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene and become involved - it's the citizen who changes things.

Death ... doesn't take her eyes off us for a minute, so much so that even those who are not yet due to die feel her gaze pursuing them constantly.

Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

Creating is always so much more stimulating than destroying.