Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.

Collective madness is called sanity.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

We must eat three meals a day, even if we're not hungry, and when we fail to fit the current ideal of beauty we must fast, even if we're starving.