Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.

Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

We can never be gods, after all--but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

...it's most important to accept that your yoga poses may not look like everyone else's. That's okay. Just adapt the poses to your current state of being.

A work of art has an author and yet when it is perfect it has something which is anonymous about it.

As I see it, my job as a writer isn't to judge, but to take a reader as far inside as I can and let them dwell there.

The German ueber-photographer Andreas Gursky was the perfect pre-9/11 artist.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

Formerly, people used to grieve over the departed, but in our days they grieve over the survivors.

If you truly have expertise - and expertise can be say a chess master who has really mastered something or an artist or a musician of some sort you know if you give a jazz musician.

Those who love each other shall become invincible.