Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.

[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.