All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

But I am not allowed to forgetThe taste of the tears of yesterday.

Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.

What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.

My first car was a Toyota 4Runner when I was 17. I paid for it myself. I was very happy.

To me, it's our job as artists. You must bring joy.

The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not.

I hate gowns. It's a rare gown indeed that is cool. Most are elegant or whatever, a quality I don't put a big premium on.

Sometimes the greatest tests of our strength are situations that don't seem so obviously dangerous. Sometimes surviving is the hardest thing of all.

Your business clothes are naturally attracted to staining liquids. This attraction is strongest just before an important meeting.