God has pity on kindergarten children

Jerusalem is a port city on the shore of eternity.

From the place where we are right, flowers will not grow in the spring.

The soul inside me is the last foreign language I'm learning.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.

It was not an adventure; it was my life.

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

The movies people don't talk about or remember after six months' time don't really matter.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

My life is not just about the past.

Seeming contentment is real discontent, combined with indolence or self-indulgence, which, while taking no legitimate means of raising itself, delights in bringing others down to its own level.

I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff- box from an emperor.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Since Madonna is positioned as always "cooler than thou", we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.

It is possible to be busy-very busy-without being very effective.