You think that you are an iconoclast, but youโre not. You just move, or replace what you cannot have. If you fail at something, you retreat into something else. Nothing changes you.... I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.
Michael OndaatjeThe first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.
Michael OndaatjeJung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.
Michael OndaatjeA man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands, knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.
Michael Ondaatje