“All language is but a poor translation.”

“That is a very poor career, but only a poor career give the world the light that an imperfect, but pretty good writer wants to generate--at all costs, unfotunately.”

“But what if all the tranquility, all the comfort, all the contentment were now to come to a horrifying end?”

“All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog.”

“all that matters is that the wound fit the arrow”

“Marrying, founding a family, accepting all the children that come, supporting them in this insecure world, and perhaps even guiding them a little, is, I am convinced, the utmost a human being can succeed in doing at all.”

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.”