I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance.

What holds people together long enough to discover their power as citizens is their common inhabiting of a single place.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

A story is built on characters and reasons.

For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

The butcher seldom sees much interest in allowing the herd to be armed.

My hair has become part of my identity; it's almost an appendage to me.