When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished.

In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.

The voice of passion is better than the voice of reason. The passionless cannot change history.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

The soul exceeds its circumstances.

Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.

Consolation Calm down. Both your sins and your good deeds will be lost in oblivion.

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.

The history of my stupidity would fill many volumes.

I am composed of contradictions, which is why poetry is a better form for me than philosophy

The true enemy of man is generalization.

The world has been given a treasure through which its inhabitants can attain greatness if they so desire.

How can the face that welcomed me into the world be the face I'll soon forget? How can the body I came through be the body I don't really know?

There are few aspects of everyday life that aren't touched by the technologies developed for space travel.

[History]... is nothing else but the rise and disappearance of races.

I think a child calling for his mother is the most beautiful sound in the world.

I tell people, 'I have a Ph.D. from Google University.

One of the funniest lines in my show was written for me by Alan Bursky. I really want to learn this routine!

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

The only limit to success is your own imagination.

Donald Trump's living in a different time, a time that is not a match for what Americans now believe about who our leaders should be.