The ancestors are very much invested in the children, because the children are the ones who are going to continue the world that the ancestors made.

Some people can't go into church any longer to feel this longing, but they still have the longing, so what do they do? Well, one thing you can do is what people do in prison; they turn to poetry.

The models of adulthood are disappearing fast. How can two people have a new marriage if neither of them is an adult?

My life failed on the very day I was born.

One man wrote me, saying, 'You know who you are? You're nothing but a Captain Bly pissing up a drainpipe!'

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

The French still offer Sartre and Derrida rather than Pascal.