Poetry is not truth, it is the resurrection of presences.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

I don't kind of want to be known as a one-trick pony who just does the adult-alternative song once a year that makes it onto the radio and people sort of think it's nice.

I'd always admired Diane Keaton, but I'd never met her.

(Greg) Maddux is a master. He carved us up. He didn't give us anything good to hit.

A leader’s most powerful ally is his or her own example.

That's all life is - something childish and very natural. Isn't it?

When a man talks from his heart, in his moment of truth, he speaks poetry.

From the time I can remember my mother kept me in church. I think my first recollection of any place, being anywhere was in a church.

Some falls the means are happier to rise.