A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Everyone has to have either this or that problem, if he can't find any problem, he loses all reason for living.
In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me. I know this is God.
I decided that I did not want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because these also exerted a kind of pressure, and obstructed absolute creative freedom.
The sand murmurs that it wants to swallow everything.
There are numerous layers to truth, and the simple and superficial statement of facts cannot satisfy the writer.
Indeed, loft aspirations produce ideas.
Coming of age in a fascist police state will not be a barrel of fun for anybody, much less for people like me, who are not inclined to suffer Nazis gladly and feel only contempt for the cowardly flag-suckers who would gladly give up their outdated freedom to live for the mess of pottage they have been conned into believing will be freedom from fear.
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
Losing love is like organ damage. It's like dying. The only difference is, death ends. This? It can go on forever.
Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.