What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.

As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup. -Boris Pasternak.

No bad man can be a good poet.

Man is born to live and not to prepare to live.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.