To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect

It's been a long time since I've been me.

All beginnings are involuntary.