You bring joy and pain in equal measure. Joy because you are with me, but pain because it wont be for long.

I was not wounded in any part of my body, but I had never experienced such intense pain, such a ripping of the nerves, such an ache of the heart.

Life and death live and die in exactly the same spot, the body. It is from there that both babies and cancers are born.

In my youth, it was my good luck to have a few good teachers, men and women, who came into my head and lit a match.

There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God... These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside.

No one dies of nausea, but it can seriously sap the will to live.

Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be real, but it's true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to emotional and psychological truths.