If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die.

Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production.

A language is a more ancient and inevitable thing than any state.

What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.