If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.

Those who were on the inside, the majority that is, for them it had been hard to get his point, mostly they were just pleased that they were on the inside, that they were the fittest. For those on the outside, the fear and abandonment amounts to almost everything; everybody knows that. Understanding is something one does best when one is on the borderline.

It may be necessary to stand on the outside of one is to see things clearly.

When you let your mind go blank,' he said, 'or when you stop talking for a long time, something happens. Time becomes different. It goes away. It doesn't come back until you start to say something.

She was transparent, like a watercolor. As if she were about to dissolve in sound, in tones not yet created.

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

The problem with anger against God is that it's impossible to go higher in the system to complain.