No day copies yesterday, no two nights will teach what bliss is in precisely the same way, with precisely the same kisses.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

I'm old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.

Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don't like to joke.

Poets yearn, of course, to be published, read, and understood, but they do little, if anything, to set themselves above the common herd and the daily grind.

Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.'