Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.

God has pity on kindergarten children

I think the end is endless. It's either a big black hole or a big white light or both together. But it's totally meaningless, because even if someone would explain it, I wouldn't understand it.

I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

My poems are political in the deeper sense of the word. Political means to live in your time, to be a man of your time.

I’ve never been in those places where I’ve never been and never will be, I have no share in the infinity of light-years and dark-years, but the darkness is mine, and the light, and my time is my own.