“He said that whether a man's life was writ in a book someplace or whether it took its form day by day was one and the same for it had but one reality and that was the living of it.”
“I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now.”
“The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.”
“I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again...”
“But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.”
“At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.”