A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Chemistry is the poetry of logic and the logic of poetry.

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

"You can't always be happy, but you can always be brave."

I am not a liberator. Liberators do not exist. The people liberate themselves.

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

你和你的目标之间唯一的障碍是你不断告诉自己为什么不能实现它的故事。