All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them.

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.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

If I could be in any band, I think it would have to be The Beatles. That would have been a lot of fun.

You simply cannot blame anyone or anything for causing you to be, think or respond in a certain way.

In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.

A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'

If I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

For most of the track world, the Olympic year is such a huge year, and it's a big year for us marathoners too.