Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here.

Human life is a voyage on a sea of meaning, not a net of information.

He meant that when people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, master and pupils, jailer and prisoners. They become a single group of human beings enjoying its existence.

I'm the last guy in the world to feel overlooked by the Academy.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

India is the Saudi Arabia of 21st century.

I wanted to make photographs in which everything was so complex and detailed that you could look at them forever and never see everything.

I said i was dying not that i wanted to live”