Fear does not prevent death. It prevents life.

Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.

I reject any path which rejects life, but I can't help loving Sufism because it sounds so beautiful. It gives relief in the midst of battle.

My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.

If life has no meaning, why don't we create a meaning for it?

A priest's life is spent between question and answer-- or between a question and the attempt to answer it. The question is the summary of the spiritual life.