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.

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.

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.

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.

When a man comes out of great danger, he is apt to be a little deaf to the call of duty.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

A ballplayer doesn't make excuses.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

The Australian public are very fair and they are always prepared to give the leader of a major political party a fair go.

I never invest in anything that I don't understand.