Poetry had always seemed something I could turn to in need - an emergency exit, a lifebuoy, as well as a justification.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

An answer is always a form of death.

To write poetry and to commit suicide, apparently so contradictory, had really been the same, attempts at escape.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

Think. In a minute from now you could be saying, I risked death. I threw for life, and I won life. It is a very wonderful feeling. To have survived.

Liking other people is an illusion we have to cherish in ourselves if we are to live in society.

Wolves don't hunt singly, but always in pairs. The lone wolf was a myth.

The craving to risk death is our last great perversion. We come from night, we go into night. Why live in night?

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

The world began in hazard and will end in it.

Someone has to take the garbage out, someone has to cook the food, and someone has to clean the dishes. I want to do all of that.

It's been a huge blessing, being able to travel and have a great life.

Now the windows, blinded by the glare of the empty square, had fallen asleep. The balconies declared their emptiness to heaven; the open doorways smelt of coolness and wine.

I like a girl with a substantial bottom,' said Renoir, drawing in the air the size bottom he preferred.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Beginners are many; finishers are few.

I just don't think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

You already have within you everything you need to turn your dreams into reality.