I am the son of the road , my country is a caravan and my life is the most unexpected of voyages. i belong to earth and to the god and it is to them that I will one day soon return

Never hesitate to go far away, beyond all seas, all frontiers, all countries, all beliefs.

A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

Isn't it a characteristic of the age we live in that it has made everyone in a way a migrant and a member of a minority?

Every individual is a meeting ground for many different allegiances, and sometimes these loyalties conflict with one another and confront the person who harbors them with difficult choices

I come from no country, from no city, no tribe. I am the son of the road... all tongues and all prayers belong to me. But I belong to none of them.

For it is often the way we look at other people that imprisons them within their own narrowest allegiances. And it is also the way we look at them that may set them free.

are you certain that a man's life begins with his birth?

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

... we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

If you value your relationship or friendship, your ego won't stand in the way of a meaningful apology.

In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better.

Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.

Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

I felt very bad in Washington. . . I didn't like my job, and I didn't know what was going to happen to me, and I was cold and half-hungry, so I wrote a great many poems.

In deep waters, you encounter only the wise and the brave; in shallow waters, the ignorant and the coward!

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

Children of a culture born in a water-rich environment, we have never really learned how important water is to us. We understand it, but we do not respect it.