Yet falling in love is not the same as being able to love.

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.

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

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

What was it with evildoers trying to hire my boyfriend as a mercenary?

The miracle centered gospel gives rise to a generation of people that believes that they don’t need to be good, better than anybody else but just want to pray and get favor.

The American free market system is the greatest engine for prosperity and opportunity that the world has ever seen. Freedom works.

Friendship needs both confidences and confidence in the other's outstretched hand.

I feel that my ear candy is a little different from the ear candy most people are receiving right now.

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things.