I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.

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.

Writing is not a matter of time, but a matter or of space. If you don't keep space in your head for writing, you won't write even if you have the time.

The closer you are to God, the farther you are from the devil.

Man begins by loving love and ends by loving a woman. Woman begins by loving a man and ends by loving love.

A mobile is an abstract sculpture made chiefly out of sheet metal, steel rods, wire and wood. Some or all of these elements move, propelled by electric motors, wind, water or by hand.

Without inner change there can be no outer change. Without collective change, no change matters.

Your ears will always lead you right, but you must know why.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised.

I think every time I go in a game, I have added something positive. I have gotten a rebound or made a defensive play. That is what I try to focus on.

The lunatics have taken over the asylum and we can do anything we want.