Language is memory and metaphor.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

Failures to love are irremediable and irredeemable.

A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.

No form of art repeats or imitates successfully all that can be said by another; the writer conveys his experience of life along a channel of communication closed to painter, mathematician, musician, film-maker.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.

Hope is a talent like any other.