No writer in our time has been more isolated than Kafka, and yet few have achieved communication as well as he did.

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.

Too many lives are needed to make just one.

In reality art is always for everyone and for no one.

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

I do not go in search of poetry. I wait for poetry to visit me.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

I have always knocked at the door of that wonderful and terrible enigma which is life.

The real history, the one that counts and is not to be found in books, is precisely this one, the one made by simple men; and it is the only one that rules the world.

Holidays - Have no pity.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

we’re too old to be young.

Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.

Music is my life. It's inseparable from anything else that I do.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former.

One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

I feel relief about the Oscars. You know, you're not in this business for prizes but, okay, I missed one.

When you're all alone, love one another.