He’s just another man who wants to teach me something.

I do feel it. And I've felt it my whole life, that the supernatural has a role in the world.

To go on and on about your soul is to miss the whole point of life. I could say that with more certainty if I knew the whole point of life.

Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

I hadn't realized until this week that in [Moses'] youth he killed a man, an Egyptian, and buried him under some sandI used to worry that I wasn't enough like Jesus, but yesterday I remembered who was my king; a man who, when God addressed him and told him to lead the people out of Egypt, said, 'But I'm not a good talker! Couldn't you ask my brother instead?' So it should not be so hard to come at this life with a bit of honesty. I don't need to be great like the leader of the Christian people. I can be a bumbling, murderous coward like the King of the Jews.

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.