Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.

By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being.

­Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.

There is no fool like an educated fool.

I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.