There are words and words and none mean anything. And then one sentence means everything.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

We have a very foolish notion in Western countries that progress delivers freedom. But progress doesn't necessarily bring moral virtue.

Writing is not lying, nor is it theft. It is a journey and search for transparency between one’s words and one’s soul.

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

What reality was ever made by realists?

When forging money, I had always salved my conscience by concluding that I was merely extending the lie of commerce.

Love is the scent of a sleeping back, death a slight draft of bad breath.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The path to survival was to never give up on the small things.

Your faith will abandon you in blink of an eye.

If you wanna make friends at the ATM, do the creep.

Blood and wine are interchangeable. Love and hate are unrecognizable. Sanity is no longer with me.

I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'

Not everything that's true needs to be said.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

What do you tell a man with two black eyes? Nothing, he's already been told twice.

The secret of having a personal life is not answering too many questions about it.

If you make the same mistake 3 times, that becomes ‘your arrangement’

The more we stretch the muscle called compassion and generosity, the stronger we get, the better we feel about ourselves, the more loving we become to the world around us.