Insomnia is an all-night travel agency with posters advertising faraway places.

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

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.

One writes because one has been touched by the yearning for and the despair of ever touching the Other.

The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.