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.

While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

The machinery of the world is far too complex for the simplicity of men.

Soccer is popular because stupidity is popular.

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

We have a very precise image - an image at times shameless - of what we have lost, but we are ignorant of what may follow or replace it.

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.