I, the ordinary restless child, the plain adolescent, the commoner who had been a nun twice, would prove to be a Daughter of Heaven.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

I splash my head with ice-cold water and turn to face the mirror. When my image appears I instinctively look away. Is there a truth on the other side that we do not want to see?

I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal youth.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.

I would like to be a philosopher in ancient Athens and a poet in ancient China.

Politicians are better liars than writers.

Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.

would you dare to love me?

I cannot live without books because books are my life.

...losing a friend is like losing a language, and I miss the one we spoke together.

I belong to the divine source from which I originated.

we who determine how quickly time passes.

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.

An audience is an abstraction; it has no taste. It must depend on the only person who has (pardon, should have), the conductor.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

Fans always tell me I'm beautiful, but no one will ever be as beautiful as them

The standards have sunk so low throughout our culture that who really knows.

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.