Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it.
It is a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
While the scientist sees everything that happens in one point of space, the poet feels everything that happens in one point of time.
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.
There is only one school of literature - that of talent.