I don't think there's any essential difference, at least for me, between writing poetry and writing prose.

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.

Merry Christmas!

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

I know you like the way I am freakin' it. I talk with slang and I'm never gonna stop speakin' it.

Now is our chance to choose the right side. God is holding back to give us that chance. It won't last forever. We must take it or leave it.

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.

Nothing is ever done until everyone is convinced that it ought to be done, and has been convinced for so long that it is now time to do something else.

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.

Faces can lie. Backsides can't.