The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

You stupefied me. We waxed, Carnivores, late and alight In the beaded winter. All was ominous, luminous.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

Reading is a pleasure, but to finish reading, to come to the blank space at the end, is also a pleasure.

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

In the increasingly convincing darkness The words become palpable, like a fruit That is too beautiful to eat.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

They came to realize that, even if evil and injustice seemed to win at some point, God would still be the ultimate victor. In the end good and justice would prevail forever.

No religion is higher than humanity

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

People are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

If you align your priorities in such a way that puts people first, everything begins to make more sense.

Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions.

Make believe I'm right.

Exercise is the most awful illusion. The secret is a lot of aspirin and marrons glaces.