I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

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.

Children are never too young to begin the study of nature's book, and never too old to quit. ~Laura Hecox

All my contemporaries—hundred-and-fivers or convicts—will tell you how we livedin barely sentient fear, raisingchildren for the executioner, prison, or the torture chamber.

Nothing short of everything will really do.

Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

If you've chosen someone to be in your bridal party, she should be a good enough friend that she does not want to upstage you.

Do you just want to get by? Or do you want to make me proud?