All literature, is, finally autobiographical.

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 struggle to leave the cocoon is what strengthens the butterfly’s wings so she can fly. I am about to become something beautiful.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

Time...give us enough time and our best-supported decisions will seem wobbly, our certainties whimsical.

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

It's a bad religion to be in love with someone who could never love you.

I just don't do anything fun anymore. But, that's dying, isn't it? I mean, you die in stages, right? You let things go in pieces.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

Only one thing is ever guaranteed, that is that you will definitely not achieve the goal if you don't take the shot.