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.

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self. The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.

Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men.

Everything is theater.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.