Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

Don’t worry about things. Don’t push. Just do your work and you’ll survive. The important thing is to have a ball, to be joyful, to be loving and to be explosive. Out of that comes everything and you grow.

Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons.

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.