You can’t understand beauty without peace of mind and you can’t get close to the truth without fear.

…I believe in dreams more than I believe in God. Dreams get into you and leave, then come back with new fruit, but God is just a vast desert.

The pleasure I found in reading books was disconcerting…I felt anxious about every new piece of information. I would latch onto one particular detail and start look for references and other versions of it in...

On more than one occasion I heard how life apparently advances, moves on, sets sail or, at worst, apparently crawls slowly forward. My life, on the other hand, simply exploded like a firecracker in the...

The operation would be in a week…I didn’t know if I would survive. How I longed to go back to reading! There was nowhere I longed to be more than the university campus. I was...