We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

The more mistakes I make, the least I judge other people's mistakes

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

Religion is spelled DO. Christianity is spelled DONE. One endlessly works to earn love. The other simply receives it!

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

My work is not repetition. It is an exploration.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

Because you know He can, you can pray with holy confidence.

I'm a perfectly good carrot that everyone is trying to turn into a rose. As a carrot, I have good color and a nice leafy top. When I'm carved into a rose, I turn brown and wither.

Life is nothing but a bet that in the end everyone is doomed to lose. So you'd better get used!