Sometimes, people trying to commit suicide manage it in a manner that leaves them breathless with astonishment.

A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

If there is a choice between absolute safety and freedom, then freedom must always prevail.

To understand just one life you have to swallow the world ... do you wonder, then, that I was a heavy child?

People don't like being around despair. Our tolerance for the truly hopeless, for those who are irredeemably broken by life is strictly limited. The sob stories we like are the ones that end before we're bored.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

We crave permission openly to become our secret selves.