i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

I don't think esthetic schools are important. What is important is the use that is made of them, or whatever the individual writer does.

The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.