Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

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.

She hates everything that is not what she longs for.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed.

A choice with no consequences has no value. Making a choice knowing there will be consequences, and being willing to bear them, is what distinguishes the right choices from the wrong ones.

Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

A well-paid four-hour workday will increase the number of workers.

Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.

It's important for me to be free and know I'm acting for myself. I do things because I want to, and that's important. You want to be your own person.

But, I've made films in Japan, in Yugoslavia, all over Europe, all over the United States, Mexico, but not Hollywood.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.