Maybe all you need to do is find the heartbeat in everything. And if writing is living, the discovery of the beat of a heart, then when you read me, you are living by my side.

Art allows us to die over and over without actually dying. Only we must catch our breath.

I let quiet shape what I say, then realize there is nothing that can be fully said—the reason for gestures and eyes and art. Always something waiting, wanting, expectant, yet also curiously not.

If I could simply place the various parts of myself into the night sky to occasionally glance up and behold myself—maybe in the end I am only hoping to vicariously soak up some starlight.

I wonder how much space I take up, if a thought can take up secondary space.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

To believe in moments makes life endless, no?

Being in the country is like being in a dream—one doesn't quite know who one is. There is an anonymity to it all—that strange human creature that is me, one among all.

The sleep of reason encourages the elections.

May the light illuminate your hearts and shine in your life every day of the year. May everlasting peace be yours and upon our Earth.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

All a writer's characters are imaginary, no matter whether they are based on real people or not. They are people as one imagines them to be.

The nearest I can make it out, "Love your Enemies" means, "Hate your Friends"

As long as everyone's wearing their own pants." "I see I have come in on a fascinating moment in the conversation.

As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence.