For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths.

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.

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.

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

It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native language was thought.

Sometimes this fellow's music was like little colored pieces of crystal candy, and other times it was the softest, saddest thing she had ever imagined about.

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

The development of the food industry for both domestic and export markets relies on a regulatory framework that both protects the consumer and assures fair trading practices in food.

The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting.

The day that you stop looking - because you're content God did it - I don't need you in the lab. You're useless on the frontier of understanding the nature of the world.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

So don't get me wrong, I love my songs, and I still love hearing them. That's history, baby.