Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

With the plundered people transferring their energies into relaxed and receptive thoughts, degradation and lust for power produced art.

I do not think it matters whether one agrees or not as long as ons is forced to think.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

Just as the winds whip up the sea, so does anger stir confusion in the mind.

God has allowed me to communicate well with people who are younger than me.

Bill Clinton was giving the Clinton campaign the best advice.

‎I am something that was. and I am something that not yet.

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.