The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick.
Do you know what the luckiest thing is?’‘No.’‘It is to be at home everywhere.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you.
He thought about how the camera makes one fall in love with an image of oneself, and perpetuates a false reality.
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
Understanding is a pure glass of water. All great truths have no taste. Hints of sweetness are coloured by the need for amazement.
Stories can conquer fear, you know. They can make the heart bigger.
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we’re born into stories. I say we’re also born from stories.
Strange things are happening to us.’‘To our children.’‘They sayhe is looking for the spirit of Independence.’‘They say he is looking for himself.’‘For his ownspirit.’‘Which he lost when the white man came.
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It’s the only space.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you’re suffering in.
I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.