The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.