The purpose of poetry is to restore to mankind the possibility to wonder.

The Mexican...is familiar with death. [He] jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, celebrates it. It is one of his favorite toys and his most steadfast love.

Beyond myself, somewhere, I wait for my arrival.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

To love is to battle, to open doors, to cease to be a ghost with a number forever in chains, forever condemned by a faceless master; the world changes if two look at each other and see.

Deserve your dream.

A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

Love is not a desire for beauty; it is a yearning for completion.

A civilization that denies death ends by denying life.

Every moment is nothing without end.

Whatever is not stone is light

Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

I do not choose to be a common man.

Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren't interested in), people don't speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.

All philosophy is a form of confession.

I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.

Hey, ugly!" Annabeth yelled. I hoped she was talking to the giant, not me.

You have to like the characters you play.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.