A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all. He replied: the ubiquity of sparrows.

Time takes life away and gives us memory, gold with flame, black with embers.

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.

Cities at daybreak are no one's, and have no names. And I, too, have no name, dawn, the stars growing pale, the train picking up speed.

I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.

Clear moments are so short. There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.

This day's nothingness as if from spite became a flame and scorched the lips of children and poets.

I drink from a small spring, my thirst exceeds the ocean.

No one ever said on their deathbed, 'Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer'.

Where I grew up, the basketball courts were rarely used.

The Kingdom is to be in the midst of your enemies

There were five writers on Blazing Saddles.

Listen honey, would I lie to you to get in your pants?

So I departed, leaving behind a pungent smell of brimstone. Just something to remember me by.

For the earliest period of the history of Israel, all that precedes the building of the temple, not a trace can be found of any sanctuary of exclusive legitimacy.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Probably the biggest challenge is actors, no matter how talented the actor is they don't have the capability of being in more than one place than one particular time, which is very vexing.

Experience is a good teacher, but her fees are very high.