Occupation: Poet Birth: March 15, 1959
You are a mischievous one. You will cause no end of trouble. You have to travel many roads before you find the river of your destiny. This life of yo….
To anyone who is homeless, I say, find a home..
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering..
This earth that we live on is full of stories in the same way that, for a fish, the ocean is full of ocean. Some people say when we are born we're bo….
What you see is what you make. What you see in a people is what you eventually create in them..
A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. Without stories we would go mad. ….
I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare..
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell..
It is not important for me as a writer that you leave a piece of writing of mine with either an agreement or even a resonance with what I have said. ….
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does..
Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases..
Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide..
To see the madness and yet walk a perfect silver line. ... That's what the true story-teller should be: a great guide, a clear mind, who can walk a s….
I know that human beings are capable of anything..
When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than….
To poison a nation, poison its stories. A demoralised nation tells demoralised stories to itself. Beware of the storytellers who are not fully consci….
We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination..
Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste your g….
Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, ….
Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals an….
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life..