“Once a picture was taken, the experience was purged of its power to haunt.”
“I left you clean. Purged of all your ghosts. I am the one who has been haunted all my life. Haunted by you.”
“Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.”
“Literature is not a picture of life, but is a separate experience with its own kind of flow and enhancement.”
“A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet Earth taken from space. On the back it said, 'Wish you were here.”
“One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.”