I can well imagine that somewhere far off, 150 miles away, a ship’s watch looked up, startled, and later reported the oddest thing, that he thought he heard a cat’s meow coming from three o’clock. Day...
I began to wait. My thoughts swung wildly. I was either fixed on practical details of immediate survival or transfixed by pain, weeping silently, my mouth open and my hands on my head.
I ask you, is it the fig tree's fault that it's not the season for figs? What kind of thing is that to do to an innocent tree, wither it instantly?
Hungry, tired, eyes sore, dying to pee, I would sit and take in every conceivable kind of movie. The only criterion for being shown at Canadian Images was that a movie be Canadian. It
How strange, this habit of weeping. Do animals weep? Surely they feel sadness—but do they express it with tears? He doubts it. He has never heard of a weeping cat or dog, or of a weeping wild animal....
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony...
Her fear was something useless that only hampered her.
He became a champion napper.
Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love.
English’s drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, its should...
English was jazz music, German was classical music, French was ecclesiastical music, and Spanish was the music from the streets.
El hecho de escoger la duda como filosofía de vida es como elegir la inmovilidad como forma de transporte.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness!
Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart.
Christianity stretches back through the ages, but in essence it exists only at one time: right now.
Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation in a frenzy. To one born in a religion where the battle for a single soul can b...
Bapu Ghandi said, All religions are true. I just want to love God, I blurted out, and looked down, red in the face.
Az emberek a kimerítő, elnyűvő szorongás miatt költöznek el. A miatt a mardosó érzés miatt, hogy mindegy, milyen keményen dolgoznak, erőfeszítésük nem hoz semmi eredményt, hogy amit egy éven át felépí...
At one point I turned to the French language, which gave me the gender of all things. But to no satisfaction. I would readily agree that trucks and murders were masculine while bicycles and life were...