Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.

Under the seams runs the pain.

When I desire you a part of me is gone.

If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.

Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks and courage.

Life doesn't give you much, but for the ones who want to learn, life teaches them how to be strong before they start living their lives instead of just existing in this world.

There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.

He was fortified by a memory which kept only the good things and rejected the ill. Despite his sorrows, he had had a fair share of joys and these were ever fresh and accessible.

There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

Don't doubt, don't stop... The only 2 things that can stop you is to stop working and start doubting.