Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?'

A man must be a born fool who voluntarily engages in controversy with Mr. Adams on a question of fact. I doubt whether he was ever mistaken in his life.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

I cannot look at myself in the mirror; everything I have believed in I have had to reject. This environment only makes sense through the prism of trends.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

I always think everything has been the best part of my life.

when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.

Anger is a more noble emotion than indifference.

That for me is more important than anything when you're in the studio - to have somebody you can trust and who knows you, knows who you are and doesn't let you get away with anything.