The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

Our knowledge of what the richer than ourselves possess, and the poor do not, has never been more widespread. Therefore, envy, which is wanting what others have, and jealousy, which is not wanting others to have what one has, have never been more widespread.

He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

How can one build a better self unless on the ruins of the old?

I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.