From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
No one can predict the future.
Everything changes with time. You can't predict where you're gonna be next year; you have no idea, you know what I mean?
Sometimes my life opened its eyes in the dark. A feeling as if crowds drew through the streets in blindness and anxiety on the way towards a miracle, while I invisibly remain standing.
But God can only smile because only God can know what is coming next.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Matrimony; the high sea for which no compass has yet been invented.
We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.
I always say that people are like peanut shells on the ocean: the waves will take them everywhere.
There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life, and it's the same--fleeting and unknowable--for every one of us. I lived.
I've always had a compassion for characters in novels - the sense that they are, whatever they might think, living in a world that has a shape they don't know and can't finally alter.
