Canada is so far away it hardly exists.

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.

I loved Verti. Until she jumped. That is when I felt Vertigo.

Your like Martha Stewart on crack, ” my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.

Go, send, or disobey.

You made a lot of mistakes, and you wrote a lot of crap. But it was all part of the learning process.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.

Void of freedom, what would virtue be?

I think it’s important for me to play well and set the tone.

Now, I'm no doctor, but I am on TV. And in my professional opinion, George Bush is a paranoid schizophrenic.

In my country we say that ignorance is the warm bath in which it is comfortable to sit but dangerous to lie down.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.