I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other..

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised..

Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan.

I prefer the hell of chaos to the hell of order..

Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous "I don't know..

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. Even the richest, most surprising and ….

This terrifying world is not devoid of charms, of the mornings that make waking up worthwhile..

Whether you want it or not, your genes have a political past, your skin a political tone. your eyes a political color. ... you walk with political st….

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to sa….

And whatever I do will become forever what I've done..

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspira….

Animals don't even try to look any different from what nature intended. They humbly wear their shells, scales, spines, plumes, pelts, and down. ... T….

There is so much Everything that Nothing is hidden quite nicely.

The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand..

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life..

Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through..

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look..

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die..

In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed..

I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems..