The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.

All the things that were read to me by my father were stories about things becoming all right.

The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.

Small things start us in new ways of thinking