Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.

To write well consists of continuously making small erosions, wearing away grammar in its established form, current norms of language. It is an act of permanent rebellion and subversion against social environs.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Thought is not a gift to man but a laborious, precarious and volatile acquisition.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.