The world is full of mystery but it must not be choked with secrets: we must talk to one another.

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

In description we hear and feel the absorption of the author in the material. We sense the presence of the creator of the scene. .. This personal absorption is what we mean by 'style.' It is strange that we would choose so oddly surfacey a word - style - for this most soulful aspect of writing. We could, perhaps more exactly, call this relation between consciousness and its subject 'integrity.' What else is the articulation of perception?

Poverty didn't necessarily engender an envy of wealth; sometimes it might beget a passion for decency.