Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

I'm sort of murdered for selling books. The idea is, if you make money your work can't be literary.

People's position on immigration, once they get "sophisticated," and they rise to the higher levels of commentary or government, it's usually determined solely by economics. And not by anything else.

I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.

It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.

As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours.