Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates my life and my writing in a very natural way. I don't even think about it.