In our dreams we are able to fly . . . and that is a remembering of how we were meant to be.

It was the same way with silence. This was more than silence. A deaf person can feel vibrations. Here there was nothing to feel.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

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

To be born is to start the journey towards death.