We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

Women's roles in the movies remain, for the most part, girlfriends, mothers, wives.

I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

[Fear] means that we are human beings walking into the unknown, and that we are risking breaking with others for something we believe in.

There is a job to be doneto record the truth. I want to wake people up!

Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross.

I'm not really very funny, I just keep recycling jokes.

I would never do it because if I took steroids, I would hit 60 or 70 home runs.

We need to take a whole UK perspective on this [Brexit]. The Mayor of London has got a role in those kinds of discussions.