I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

Strategic execution always solves problems

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.

It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.

Upon Love's bosom Earth floats like an Ark Safely through all the Deluge of the dark.

The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.

If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging on a gallows as high as Haman's.

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

I very rarely watch my own fashion shows, but the makeup for my Fall 2011 show was just brilliant.