Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home.

He warned that any church that ignored reality would not survive to enjoy the divine.

For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day.

It is a function of poetry to locate those zones inside us that would be free, and declare them so.

No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

There is no problem that cannot be solved.

I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns

It's hard to argue against cynics - they always sound smarter than optimists because they have so much evidence on their side.

I think women secretly yearn for the return of John Wayne and don't even know it.

We're dealing with old issues that aren't ours. We carry them and we pass them on to those who come after us. I am hoping to crack some of those.