Read moreThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Read moreThe face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.
Read moreIt was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Read moreThere is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
Read morePeople pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Read moreTo be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the making of bread.