When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

An artist is someone who cannot rest, who can never rest as long as there is one suffering creature in the world.

I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.

If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.

To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.

Art is communication.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.