Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

You’ll come back To me . . . It’s written in the stars, you see, you’ll come back. You’ll come back, it’s a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

The more elusive and ambiguous a symbol is, the more it gains significance and power.