To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

I'm not a poet, I'm a storyteller.

It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you’ve made, and there’s this panic because you don’t know yet the scale of disaster you’ve left yourself open to.

诗人通过长期、巨大而有意识的感官错乱使自己成为先知。

国家是人类历史上最重要的制度。

最好的管理是一门真正的科学，建立在明确的法律、规则和原则之上。