There will never be any peace in the world as long as we eat animals.

The sexual organs are the most sensitive organs of the human being. They are not diplomats. They tell the truth.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

While the poet entertains he continues to search for eternal truths, for the essence of being. In his own fashion he tries to solve the riddle of time and change, to find an answer to suffering, to reveal love in the very abyss of cruelty and injustice. Strange as these words may sound I often play with the idea that when all the social theories collapse and wars and revolutions leave humanity in utter gloom, the poet--whom Plato banned from his Republic--may rise up to save us all.

When the time comes I will go joyfully. Whatever may be there, it will be real, without complication, without ridicule, without deception.

I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.

I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.