Nature wants us to enjoy life to the full and die without giving it a second thought; Christianity wants the opposite.

With everyone born human, a poet - an artist - is born, who dies young and who is survived by an adult.

Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.

If you want to succeed, limit yourself.

In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.

Most celebrated men live in a condition of prostitution.

Moshe was an Israeli with an ear-slitting laugh. He used it in the same way as a madman uses a gun, spraying it around with bewildering randomness.

In our rushing, bulls in china shops, we break our own lives.

I'm someone who believes the only way to see a movie is in a big theater, on a big screen, with a big bag of popcorn.

You are, when all is done-just what you are.

Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do

Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.

Mercy trumps justice.

Bodies always understand each other, even when the souls do not.

We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.