Things have a life of their own, " the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

There is always something left to love.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

Tell him, ' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.

Jesus Christ is the Son of Man.

It's not always about the money.

Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.

I find it really hard to throw myself into something artistically where I'm making up a whole character and finding something for that character to do.

The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat...

I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.

I've never felt fallow in the sense that there's been no work.

People ought to like poetry the way a child likes snow & they would if poets wrote it.