The highest levels of consciousness are wordless.

There’s no preparation for poetry.

Only poetry can measure the distance between ourselves and the Other.

I'm not a stickler for truth. To me, lying in poetry is much more fun. I'm against lying in life, in principle, in any other activity except poetry.

A 'truth' detached and purified of pleasures of ordinary life is not worth a damn in my view. Every grand theory and noble sentiment ought to be first tested in the kitchen-and then in bed, of course.

He who cannot howl will not find his pack.

When people ask me how to find happiness in life I tell them, First learn how to cook.