I have committed the worst of sins one can commit... I have not been happy.

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.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.

Although the circle dance is known throughout the entire world, the front dance is limited to the cultures of which the rectangular hut is a part.

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

One has been a poor spectator of life if one has not witnessed the hand - that kills from mercy.

The image of the frontier is probably one of the oldest images of mankind, and it is not surprising that we should find it hard to get rid of.

I've known parabatai so close they were almost the same person; do you know what happens, when one of them dies, to the one that's left-

My accent always works with girls. They like it, I have no idea why.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It's also an influence in the way you see everything - in the way you feel your life.