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.

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.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

How can the sky be the limit if there are footsteps on the moon?

his wife might, I verily believe, be the very happiest woman the sun shines on

I found out it is just as hard to make a movie that you are not proud of as it is to make one you love.

The secret of life is love, but the purpose of life is happiness.

If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will.

I don't look back. I look forward and plan new shows. That's really feeding the most important part of working in the theater.

Someone asked me the other day, 'Do you get upset when people say you are the young Frank Sinatra?' It doesn't upset me. It is a huge compliment, but it is false.

Not everyone can lead worship.

It's hard to know whether certain characters come to life or not, they either come to have their own life or they don't. I've written many things in which the characters just remain inert.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.