There's nothing like a re-creation of the event. Which is lucky. Think if one could fully remember perfume or kisses! How wearisome the reality of them would be!

Don’t believe in the fate society chose for you. Instead, carve out a new fate for yourself.

I'd trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday.

Dad?""What?" A small bird rises from a tree in front of us."What should I be when I grow up?"The bird disappears over a far ridge. I don't know what to say. "Honest, " I finally say.

How long does it take your soul to realize that your life is full? The slower the living, the greater the sense of fullness and satisfaction.

The moment a man claims a right to control the will of a fellow being by physical force, he is at heart a slaveholder.

Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay.

The euro is a failed currency, a wrong currency, a failed experiment.

You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

I think ultimately, when you believe somebody is going through a situation and it's either awkward or ridiculous, but you believe it, that can be funny.