Come sleep with me: We won't make Love,Love will make us.

I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.

Of all our feelings the only one which really doesn't belong to us is hope. Hope belongs to life, it's life itself defending itself. Etcetera.

Only in dreams, in poetry, in play do we sometimes arrive at what we were before we were this thing that, who knows, we are.

The evolution from happiness to habit is one of death's best weapons.

Time is born in the eyes, everybody knows that.

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.

The novel wins by points, the short story by knockout.

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Everything can be killed except nostalgia for the kingdom, we carry it in the color of our eyes, in every love affair, in everything that deeply torments and unties and tricks.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

Let me in the ring. I'll show you what that big word means.

Fearlessness means surrendering one’s outcomes – in essence, making peace that your outcomes regarding life’s events ---may or may not come to fruition.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Of course people take something good and turn it negative.

Styles, like everything else, change. Style doesn't.

There were thousands of women in New York alone who could replace me in his life, but there was only one Gideon Cross.

For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for

I genuinely love you all and the fact that some of you are not feeling so great at the moment really really upsets me.

I always root for the defense.