I believe that only poetry counts ... A great novelist is first of all a great poet.

No love, no friendship, can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.

If the flame inside you goes out, the souls that are next to you will die of cold.

Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who you are is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

That is the mystery of grace: it never comes too late.

Where does discipline end? Where does cruelty begin? Somewhere between these, thousands of children inhabit a voiceless hell.

The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.

Doubt is nothing but a trivial agitation on the surface of the soul, while deep down there is a calm certainty.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.

There is no accident in our choice of reading. All our sources are related.

A writer is essentially a man who does not resign himself to loneliness.

Could we imagine that beauty itself doesn’t just exist in society’s version of aesthetic perfection? Beauty also emerges from places and things that tell us stories.

To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

The grave has a door on its inner side.

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.

The very thing that most qualifies us to pray is our helplessness.

I'm still alive, and I don't lose sleep because I have done what I feel I needed to do, it was the right thing to do and I am not going to be afraid.

He who exerts his mind to the utmost knows his nature.

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

Dreams really tell you about yourself more than anything else in this world could ever tell you.