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...
Art is water, and just as humans are always close to water, for reasons of necessity (to drink, to wash, to flush away, to grow) as well as for reasons of pleasure (to play in, to swim in, to relax in...
And that wasn't the end of it. There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless. Thes...
And so, when she first heard of Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard Hairless Christians, and that is what they were to her for many years. when I corrected her, I told her that in fact she...
An intellect confounded yet a trusting sense of presence and of ultimate purpose.
A germ of religious exaltation, no bigger than a mustard seed.
A tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful.
Know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently.
And so, when she heard if Hare Krishnas, she didn't hear right. She heard "Hairless Christians", and that is what they were to her for many years. When I corrected her, I told her in fact she was not...
I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so mus...
It's a misery peculiar to would-be writers. Your theme is good, as are your sentences. Your characters are so ruddy with life they practically need birth certificates. The plot you've mapped out for t...
عليك أن تجري تعديلات إذا ما كنت تريد النجاه. الكثير يصبح مستهلكاً, تحصل على سعادتك حيث يمكن. تصل إلى نقطه تكون فيها في قاع الجحيم, و مع ذلك تجلش متكاتفاً و ابتسامه تعلو وجهك, شاعراً أنك أكثر الناس حظا...
Красивая и печальная. Ведь она навсегда расставалась с Индией - с ее жарой и муссонами, рисовыми полями и рекой Каувери, с ее побережьями и каменными храмами, воловьими упряжками и разноцветными фурго...
Can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.
You might have noticed that I have been sending you used books. I have done this not to save money, but to make a point which is that a used book, unlike a used car, hasn't lost any of its initial val...
You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. I could explain it by arguing th...
You can get used to anything - haven't I already said that? Isn't that what all survivors say?
Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it'...
Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better lif...
While Odo has mastered the simple human trick of making porridge, Peter has learned the difficult animal skill of doing nothing. He's learned to unshackle himself from the race of time and contemplate...