Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if I weren't constantly impeding its flow.

Artists are the traditional interpreters of dreams and nightmares.

We can only make ourselves the victim.

No lepidopterist's collection in the entire world...full if iridescent wings, is worth the life of a single butterfly.

I ran. A grown man running with a swarm of screaming children. But i didn't care. I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the Valley of Panjsher on my lip. I ran

In order to find yourself you need to get lost in the forest of life.

I believe that as much as you take, you have to give back. It's important not to focus on yourself too much.

Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.

I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.