Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

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.

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.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

When you live as a friend of the now, many changes come into your life.

To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge, hear their problems. Be a good listener. The rest will come.

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.

People are always going to have opinions, and people have a right to their opinions.

I am the ultimate California girl, which is funny, being that I'm Canadian.

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle