In nature forms are endlessly being destroyed and then recreated and destroyed and recreated. Nature isn't afraid to destroy forms in the process of regenerating. So why are we afraid of that in life?

There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.

If I had a camera,' I said, 'I'd take a picture of you every day. That way I'd remember how you looked every single day of your life.

The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.

At night the sky is pure astronomy.

There were many things they simply didn't talk about: between them, silence was not so much a form of evasion as a way for solitary people to exist in a family.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.