The language of labels is like paper money, issued irresponsibly, with nothing of intrinsic value behind it, that is, with no effort of the intelligence to see, to really apprehend.

There was no way to grasp the reality of the present which slid away each second, invisible as air; reality only existed after the fact, in one's vision of the past.

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

You'll see some bad things, but if you didn't see them, they'd still be happening.

The minute you become conscious that you are doing good, that's the minute you have to stop because from then on it's wrong.

we are, in this country, more open to new ideas. But we are also, it seems to me, more inclined to hail the new as absolute truth - until the next new comes along.

People steal into one's consciousness and occupy what seems, in retrospect, to have been their place all along.