A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

I do not cut my life up into days but my days into lives, each day, each hour, an entire life.

My only two weapons: time and silence.

…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.

The greatest assassin of life is haste, the desire to reach things before the right time which means overreaching them.

Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so.

The urban man is an uprooted tree, he can put out leaves, flowers and grow fruit but what a nostalgia his leaf, flower, and fruit will always have for mother earth!

A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.

The background reveals the true being and state of being of the man or thing. If I do not possess the background, I make the man transparent, the thing transparent.

Back of my forehead I feel tonight A whole sky full of stars. Under a western moon. Life is indeed lovely!

You never know what’s going to be in the garden in June when you’re looking at it in January.

Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.

I got given a pair of Christmas socks with penguins on. They know you're obviously not going to wear them. I think they do it just to annoy you, to be honest.

It is in our forgiveness of other people’s sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Watch TV or something." That's what the note says. So I say to myself, Fine. But I think I'll do the "or something" part.

She pressed her hand against her chest. No heart. So where did the love she felt come from?

Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

Besides hot pockets keeps introducing new products every 10 minutes so I always have new stuff on the topic.

There was a backlash against elites, a backlash against those who were telling Americans what is important to them.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.