A poem is the realization of love. . . .

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

A hand is not enough...to never let go

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed. I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms.

it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

We have gasoline at $2 a gallon. If that doesn't drive demand, I don't know what will.

I do what I do; I cant control who thinks what.

I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'

Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.

Opportunity has power over all things.