Even great men are only truly recognized and honored once they are dead. Why? Because those who praise them need to feel themselves somehow superior to the person praised, they need to feel they are making some concession.

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.

I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.