A writer always begins by being too complicated—he’s playing at several games at once.

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.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Faith, Princess, " the Prism Cat repeated. "It is a highly underrated weapon against the dark things in this world.

Learning to be and learning to be creative are two sides of the same coin.

Adventures are what happens when an event is flawed, a mark of imperfection.

Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Whoever said it's tough at the top is talking absolute sh*t.

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

So far I've been very, very fortunate because it appears that people like to hear the music I like to play. What more fortunate position can a musician be in?

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.