He’d developed a strangely tender feeling towards such words, as if they were children abandoned in the woods and it was his duty to rescue them.

I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.

Today on the way home, it snows. Big, soft caressing flakes fall onto our skin like cold moths; the air fills with feathers.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.