My poems are more my silence than my speech. Just as music is a kind of quiet. Sounds are needed only to unveil the various layers of silence.

Tell me what’s the difference between hope and waiting because my heart doesn’t know It constantly cuts itself on the glass of waiting It constantly gets lost in the fog of hope

This morning I suddenly catch myself: I'm not there, I'm so lost in thought, I don't know what's going on around me. Can you think yourself to death?

Even a painful longing is some form of presence.

I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What remains is what’s unsaid, what’s underneath. Understanding on another level of being.

Poetry is a presentiment of the truth.

We cling to words like drowning men to straws. But still we drown, we drown.

I’m moved by everything broken and crippled. Since that’s how we really are.

I returned to confirm there can be no return.

I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.

There are things better left untouched by words.

We are here and it is now. The way I see it is, after that, everything tends towards guesswork.

Happiness in your life is directly related to your ability to love, not your ability to earn.

I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.

Good players want to be coached... Great players want to be told the truth

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

I like to think I'm healthy. I exercise a lot.

I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there.

The Congress is pretty powerful if it wants to be.

I accept no principles of physics which are not also accepted in mathematics.

I interviewed survivors, I went to Poland, saw the cities and spent time with the people and spoke to the Jews who had come back to Poland after the war and talked about why they had come back.