What can be seductive about the eternal nothing is that the finest day is indifferently this one or any other like it.

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.

What comes into the world to disturb nothing merits neither attention nor patience

Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again.

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

A poet should leave traces of his passage, not proofs. Traces alone engender dreams.

Develop your legitimate strangeness.

How can we live without the unknown before us?

Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost

You should welcome pain

Then the nurse did turn to glance, and then stare—actually stare—at me. His look made me feel as if I was green, or whistling, or dead.

I was a vegetarian first. I had high blood pressure at 27, everybody in my family died of cancer, and I knew it was in the food, so I changed my diet.

The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.

Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Blessed is the healthy nature; it is the coherent, sweetly co-operative, not incoherent, self-distracting, self-destructive one!

The key to thrillers is vicarious pleasure.

I was such a nerd. It just wasn't something I would have wanted. And I didn't want to act like an adult.