“How can we live without the unknown before us?”
“How can we live without our lives? How will we know it's us without our past?”
“Literature can teach us how to live before we live, and how to die before we die. I believe that writing is practice for death, and for every (other) transformation human beings encounter.”
“Earth can happily live without us, but we can no way live without earth!”
“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”
“No matter how we suffer, we have an obligation to others. We have to be unselfish enough to try to live in the right way, so others can get through their own lives without us fouling them up.”