Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

I'm only really alive when I'm writing.

And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.