Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.

Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

If you really want to know how a person will operate, look at how they've lived their life.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

Who approaches collaboration with agenda in terms of content? The agenda is only in terms of process, which is generosity, listening, careful thinking.

I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.

This was released I think in February and so it is a great deal of fuss being made, it hasn't in fact been given public release, it was released in February.

Stagecoach is really my first Western, actually.

Winning means fame and fortune. Losing means certain death. The Hunger Games have begun.

I'm a moderate Democrat. I've always been fascinated and maddened by the way things get done in our system, which as an ideal is so extraordinary, but the way it actually works can be mind-boggling.