A system is nothing more than the subordination of all aspects of the universe to any one of such aspects.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

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

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

He was massive, a veritable Arnold Schwarzenegger of a cat, with a wide, handsome face and a proud, lionish expression.

Its objects are CONTRACTS with foreign nations which have the force of law, but derive it from the obligations of good faith.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

All you need is a [insert plant], some [insert stick / rock / animal feces], and a good multitool.

In order to be truthful we must do more than speak the truth. We must also hear truth, receive truth, search for truth.

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

You have gifts, abilities, and dreams no one else has.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.