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.

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

In summer the empire of insects spreads.

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

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.

. . . a constitution, intended toendure for ages to come, andconsequently, to be adapted to thevarious crises of human affairs.

You augment your strength every time you overcome obstacles. Discover and use that unique potential you have in coping well in a positive way no matter how worst the situation can be.

There are a million ways to lose someone you love.

I cried for all of those things that should have just been for us...

The very desire to be certain, to be secure, is the beginning of bondage.It's only when the mind is not caught in the net of certainty, and is not seeking certainty, that it is in a state of discovery.

You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.

Everything is possible. If you want something, give something.

When the phone rang, Parker was in the garage, killing a man.

I'm never going to be a woman who doesn't work. At 12 I was emancipated from my parents so I could sign my first record deal. I think I was born working!

Is this a great country, or what?