If you get trapped in the idea that what is most important is what image of yourself you're giving to the world, you're on a dangerous path.

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I'm finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

I shall die very young...maybe seventy, maybe eighty, maybe ninety. But I shall be very young.

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Something pretty... that's just the surface. People worry so much about aging, but you look younger if you don't worry about it.

I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.

To be free means to choose, whose slave you want to be. ­

If you want to live your life through to the end, you have to live dangerously.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

For me it's not possible to forget, and I don't understand people who, when the love is ended, can bury the other person in hatred or oblivion. For me, a man I have loved becomes a kind of brother.

And this way, l'll leave everything behind before it gets the chance to do the same to me.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

There is no [...] higher than the truth.

It is the black poet who bridges the gap in tradition, who modifies tradition when experience demands it, who translates experience into meaning and meaning into belief.

Favoriting tweets has become a form of acknowledging that you've read what someone else has written.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

Face your fears and stop allowing the mind to hold you captive.

I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.