Beyond my anxiety, beyond this writing, the universe waits, inexhaustible, inviting.

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.

Perspective and perseverance are carved by time and constructed by wisdom.

No one pays me to be nice.

The inbox is the perfect delivery system of other people's priorities.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

When you change from being a part of the problem to being a part of the solution, allow somebody that.

I'm not really sure where that comes from, ... Maybe it's because I've lived more than most 25-year-olds. I left school at an early age, traveled a lot ... but I still have a far way to go.

I'm not trying to do anything too tricky.

If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.

She became a very famous, very popular young girl. Before that, she was my daughter, but now I'm her father.