A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.