I've often lost myself, in order to find the burn that keeps everything awake

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

Understand one single day fully, so you can love every night.

As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die.

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

Love is the kiss in the quiet nest while the leaves are trembling, mirrored in the water.

The day hunger disappears, the world will see the greatest spiritual explosion humanity has ever seen.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.

I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

Faithless is unbelieving heart.

I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

You ever want to negotiate a hostage situation in Quebec, I'm your man. Send me in for a little parley and the francophone miscreants will flee, hands over bleeding ears.

The tragedy of love is in its ending, the blessing—everything else. No love ever deserves to end.

I like to think that Henry James said his classic line, "A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost, " while looking for his glasses, and that they were on top of his head.

People still have the same story, the one where they get born and they do stuff and they die, but now the story means something different to what it meant before.

Be as humble as Moses, as patient as Job, and as virtuous as Daniel.

The real crucial link in the international exchange is the last three feet, which is bridged by personal contact, one person talking to another.

I live between Jamaica and Paris.

He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.