A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

Competition is simply an unestablished paternship.

Human beings are pattern-seeking animals. It's part of our DNA. That's why conspiracy theories and gods are so popular: we always look for the wider, bigger explanations for things.

Age cannot wither her nor custom stale Her infinite variety.

Children need love especially when they do not deserve it.

It is not enough to succeed a friend must fail.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

You have to water the flowers you want to grow.