To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

We are not mad. We are human.We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.

I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.

You live your life as if it's real.......a thousand kisses deep

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Time is wasted when it is not being converted

Better a friend to all his weight in gold.

Imitation is human intelligence in its most dynamic aspect.

What is it that doesn’t allow you to go to moksha? Obstinacy!

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

I do not wish to give the order full force without giving timely warning but I am a Widow’s Son, outlawed and my orders must be obeyed.

The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.