As the end approaches, there are no longer any images from memory - there are only words.

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.

Arizona is a great place to be a radiation researcher.

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Anger in the black community towards Republicans is established and immutable.

Precisely what menstruation is, is not yet very well known.

No amount of violence you've done to others prepares you for violence done to yourself.

The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.

I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.

Whatever opens us is not as important as what it opens.

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.