What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

It is easier to apologize than to get permission.

I have no idea what to do with myself. And while I wait for my epiphany, I feel the toxins collecting in my body.

Finally, what I really want is to be happy in this moment, where the magic and miracles happen. Stay in the moment and all gifts are added as you breathe and take inspired action.

The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial.

Believers who have formulated such proofs [for God's existence] ... would never have come to believe as a result of such proofs

Optimism is America's birthright.... There is no social problem Americans dare not attack. No problem, that is, except one: about marriage, and marriage alone, we despair.

I didn't want him to become gray and multi-dimensional and complicated like everyone else. Was every Heathcliff a Linton in disguise?

I’m gonna whup whoever stole my bike!

Every mind needs friendly contact with other minds, for food of expansion and growth.

Don't wait till you die to go to heaven.