"I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life."
"All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."
"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
"Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf."
"All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.[Conversation with Elizabeth Farnsworth, PBS NewsHour, March 9, 1998]"
"We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives."