I keep thinkingThat poetry is something else:A form of love that exists only in silence, In a secret place between two people, Almost always between two strangers

We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.

The only thing a person of my age can do is fall in love secretly, silently, likeI had done with Mariana. Fall in love knowing that all is lost and there is no hope.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

I want to know about life! I want some real answers..." "Five." "Five?!" "I thought that was a pretty good answer!

When Secretary [Hillary] Clinton talks about people that didn't get paid, first of all, they did get paid a lot, but taken advantage of the laws of the nation.

Everyone's brain works in a different way. I didn't feel smart in school; I just didn't get it. I thought I was an idiot. Until I got out.

The arts of peace and the arts of war are like two wheels of a cart which, lacking one, will have difficulty in standing.

I work on weekends, but from home.

You wouldn't want to move if you sat next to me on the bus. Or maybe you would.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me.

High calls low and low calls high. I tell you, if you were in such dire straits as I was, you too would elevate your thoughts. The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar.