Tonight I can write the saddest linesI loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Every day you play with the light of the universe.

Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.

I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

I am no longer in love with her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

It was at that agethat poetry came in search of me.

Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido.

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.

Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.

The total absence of humour from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.

People try to start things with me because of who I am, and I know that means I have to stay away. Its definitely racial.

Human happiness comes not from infrequent pieces of good fortune, but from the small improvements to daily life.

There is nothing harder, at moments, than talking to someone who has all the power of silence.

Reincarnation is simply changing awareness. What you are reincarnating into are different states of mind. The whole show is on the inside.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.

If I wanted to be a doctor today I'd go to math school not med school.

I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.