At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Today when two people decide upon a thoughtless and precipitate abbreviation of the physical space between them, they think, at least at that moment, that they're mutually attracted and drawn together by an overwhelming force.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Each of us has a very rich nature and can look at things objectively, from a distance, and at the same time can have something more personal to say about them. I am trying to look at the world, and at myself, from many different points of view. I think many poets have this duality.

Carry on, then, if only for the moment that it takes a tiny galaxy to blink!