Death is just infinity closing in.

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 don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Either the law exists, or it does not.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

However naïve it sounds, or however inept the result, I think the idea is to try to alchemize the crap, not just mirror it all.

I do believe in ghosts. Freaky things will happen, and I'm like, 'The wind didn't do that! Some spirit did'.

Whatever makes you weird is probably your greatest asset.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

My family grew up relying on public assistance to help provide meals for our family. Child hunger in America is a real and often overlooked problem, but one that together, we can fix.