Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

I adore life but I dont fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made.

I am at home everywhere, and nowhere. I am never a stranger and I never quite belong.

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.

For 30 years I have tried to make it understood that there are no criminals.