All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

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.

What we dream repeatedly, we become.

When a human's tears dry up forever, they transform into a monster

It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it.

Without someone telling you what you are doing is wrong, you can't say what you are doing is right.

I love to live on the brink of eternity.

We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

Most of the people who live in Washington come from other places and you can learn something from them.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.

Blud's thicker than water.