The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
It is our best work that God wants not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.