Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

If only one word of the ‘Gnani Purush’ [the enlightened one] is understood, then your welfare [that which liberates] is done.

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire.

I love being home at Christmastime.

The head does not know how to play the part of the heart for long.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

Between Pope Francis tour of the U.S. which I think was a triumph really for liberals, he really sort of for the first time in a long time made the Catholics sort of on the side of liberalism.

Like the whole DOGMA thing, screenings, bringing people together. I love when I hear that people I've brought together are working on projects.

Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.

Adventure is the vitaminizing element in histories both individual and social.