Every man should be capable of all ideas.

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'm good at coming up with wacky characters and funny dialogue.

A lot of people are looking for their soul mates. Along the way, it's nice to bump into some genital pals.

Stop rationalizing, stop stewing. Get up out of your chair and start doing.

The true value of communication is often not so much what you say to each other but the simple, powerful fact that you care enough to say something to each other so often.

Let's just say I decided that while my son is young I don't want to do projects that would take me away for months.

I would make myself head of the style police and we would fight fiercely against sloppiness.

If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

There's nothing quite like a World Cup.

Plagiarism saves time.

I know all about the tyranny of women.