The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

When you're young, you think that sex is the culmination of intimacy. Later you discover that it's barely the beginning.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.

There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language.

The great systems that inform the world about the truth and life invariably claim to be absolutely truthful and well-balanced. In reality they are quaking bridges built out of yearning.

The body's pain is so paper-thin and insignificant compared to that of the mind.

I don't fall in love anymore. Just like I don't get the mumps.