“What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality.”
“In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You are far away, and I don’t know what has become of you. My country is far away, and I don’t know what is happening there.”
“I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.”
“Remember me when I am gone away, gone far away into the silent land.”
“I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God.”
“As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. ”