I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.
When I was young, all I wanted was to write books and be an artist.
Those who understand history are condemned to watch other idiots repeat it.
We are all full of discourses that we only half understand and half mean.
Cities, like cats, will reveal themselves at night.
The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to.
Evil is a miscellaneous collection of nasty things that nasty people do.
I don't know what to think about magic and fairy tales.
Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.
It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded.
The idea of a divine creator belittles the elegant reality of the universe.
My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.
All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.
As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature.
Soytarı olan ben değilim, deliliğini gizlemek için ciddiyet oyunu oynayan, şu aklın mantığın almayacağı ölçüde sinsi, bönlüğünden bile habersiz toplum.
We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love.
Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?
public self is a conditioned construct of the inner psychological self.
In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.
Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.