You need to have a God, a lover, and an enemy, says the poet. Exactly: you need to have three enemies.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair.

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Life is a dangerous adventure, says the American, and he is half right: life is dangerous, but it's not an adventure.

The barometer that shows "variable" is an ironic indictment of God.

A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation.