It was not an adventure; it was my life.

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.

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.

Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.

When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions.

Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.

Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay.

At lunch Francis [Crick] winged into the Eagle to tell everyone within hearing distance that we had found the secret of life.

As a member of a competitive team, you want to make sure you have yourself ready to play. You don't control anything but what you do.

It is very, very dangerous to come between a person and their beliefs.

Never face facts; if you do, you'll never get up in the morning.

You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.

You have no idea, unless you have tried it, how endlessly long is a summer's day, that you measure out only by hunger, and bring to an end only when you are drowsy.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.