Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much.

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.

This book's like black holes. It really engulfes you whole.

Whether we like it or not asking is the rule of the Kingdom.

The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?

The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Anybody going into boxing already has brain damage.

About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other.

That's what I enjoy most about my music, that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.

To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom.

The art school babe quotes William Blake as she rolls a joint, then I think that I'll score.