We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

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

..That's where we humans make a mistake. We don't see the utterly amazing when it comes to us disguised as the ordinary.

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

We sat there and I knew that this was how it felt to be totally accepted. You sit close to another person and are understood, everything is understood and nothing is judged and you are indispensable.

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.