I'm not interested in the fact that a writer may label himself as being intellectual or anti-intellectual. l'm really interested in the stuff he's turning 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.

But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.

Kurt Cobain was a musical lyric genius. He was the Edgar Allan Poe of songwriting.

A balanced diet and a brisk daily walk will help keep you healthy, but there's nothing like a good-looking young man with a nice butt to help up your cardiovascular system.

From the very beginningperplexing and wanderingfrom one ocean to anotheran everlasting wander

The biggest twist in fiction might be a story ending exactly how you thought it would.

Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. It gets in the way of Black History Month. Cupid didn't free any slaves.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for others.

It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much.