But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

I write about living, not dying.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.