I owe the discovery of Uqbar to the conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia.

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.

THE MOST HURTFUL BELIEF: We live in a world where we are taught that we get by taking.

Like the fragrance of lavender, Love cannot be hidden either..... Sudipta Das in The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery

Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

Until the day I don't breathe, I will create music.

I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.

I don't get the point in a lot of biopics, they're boring. You know what's gonna happen. You're just watching actors show off.

Sure, integrating schools may sound benign. But whats the use of living in a gated community if my kids go to school and get poor all over them?

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.