“Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.”

Source: Kafka on the Shore (2002), Chapter 15

Introduction
R Is for Rocket (1962)

Source: The Flanders Panel

Teacher Man (2005)

About Peace

Address at his enthronement as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town (7 September 1986)

Source: The Seth Material (1970), p. 312

Livewire interview (2002)
Context: Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write. I didn't like writing "Heathen". There was something so ominous and final about it. It was early in the morning, the sun was rising and through the windows I could see two deer grazing down below in the field. In the distance a car was driving slowly past the reservoir and these words were just streaming out and there were tears running down my face. But I couldn't stop, they just flew out. It's an odd feeling, like something else is guiding you, although forcing your hand is more like it.

Books, What's So Great About America (2003)