Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

There is a lot of difference at McDonald's between the guy in the back making the fries and the manager up front who is running the place.

Look up . . . and see them. The teaching stars, beyond worship and commonplace tongues.

The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter.

Seeing with the eyes of Christ, I can give to others much more than their outward necessities; I can give them the look of love which they crave.

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself