The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up and you will be free.

You don't look back along time but down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that, sometimes nothing. Nothing goes away.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

God is not the voice in the whirlwind, God is the whirlwind.

You can mean more than one. You can mean thousands. I'm not in any immediate danger, I'll say to you. I'll pretend you can hear me. But it's no good, because I know you can't.

How easy it is to invent a humanity, for anyone at all.

It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you're telling it, to yourself or to someone else.