“I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin.”

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

I will go down with my colours flying.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.

Love had a thousand shapes.

It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

When one door closes, another opens.’ Yet, in-between lies a wait persuasive enough to make many go through windows.

Lower your expectations of earth. This isn’t heaven, so don’t expect it to be.

Your presence is poetic, mysterious and deep. If you don’t mind I’d like to read you; uncover the dirty secrets hidden within your pages and fill that missing space between your sheets.

You know you’re getting old when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.

O peace! how many wars were waged in thy name.

When everyone is trying to be something, be nothing. Range with emptiness.