I take the world very personally. I take history personally; I want to place myself in the larger context.

I will never turn to God.

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

What thrills me about trains is not their size or their equipment but the fact that they are moving, that they embody a connection between unseen places.

Maybe there are moments between any two adults in love when the age of one of them dissolves before the other's eyes, when the first refuge of the soul at its creation is laid bare and skinless as a sunbeam through a window. Innocence and vulnerability, two unmeasurable quantities...Perhaps that is the essence of the protection's intimacy, that it dwells in camouflage and justifies itself in stillness.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

I think what you can’t see is always what you should be frightened of.