“In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we’re no more than castrated cats”

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Reading is more important than writing.

We never stop reading, although every book comes to an end, just as we never stop living, although death is certain.

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people’s ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it’s so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely old and infinitely alive.

Nothing is ever behind us.

When you die of sorrow it’s as if you’ve broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That’s sorrow.

You have to know how to look even if you don’t know what you’re looking for.

I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn’t really happy.

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Nothing good ever comes of love. What comes of love is always something better.

The truth is we never stop being children, terrible children covered in sores and knotty veins and tumors and age spots, but ultimately children, in other words we never stop clinging to life because we are life.

Bright colours in the west, giant butterflies dancing as night crept like a cripple toward the east.

I’m an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn’t laugh or be sad with him.

I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about.

The goal is not writing. The goal is being a human being writing.

Companies that get confused, that think their goal is revenue or stock price or something. You have to focus on the things that lead to those.

I never wanted to be a performer, that was not one of my goals. I wanted to be a musician and that was that.

Life doesn’t stop with football.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to realize the brilliance of your soul.

Saving our planet requires you to be ambitious in what you aim, and, equally, in how hard you work to reach your goal.

When body, breath, and mind work together in harmony to achieve a spiritual goal, that is yoga.