You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects..

When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it..

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

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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….