To live is nothing more than to come here to die, to be what we were before being born, but with apprenticeship, experience, knowledge of cause, and perhaps with will.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums.

As they say in New York, Get over it and, if you can't get over it, Get over talking about it.

If you're a good improviser, you improvise well enough that people think that you're doing a sketch.

I am fully supportive of 'open service' and committed to LGBT military families.

I did not plan to make the Cube.

An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.

If every vampire who said he was at the crucifixion was actually there, it would've been like Woodstock.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

If I wanted to pitch that bad, I probably would. But I don't think I'm in that stage.

I think whenever a writer is really enjoying themselves and liking what they are doing, that shows on the page.