"I am an old man, and I have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."

"I have always been a timid man, but I have always tried to be a brave writer."

"The fact is that we are all on a road to death, and I don't see why we should make such a fuss about it."

"The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library... Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book."

"I am not a philosopher. I am a man of letters. I am a man of words."