I wonder if I have woven through dreams the sexual strife. I don't think so. But after all, my business is to weave dreams. I suppose I may be allowed to choose the material.

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.

To see someone you love in so much pain—especially emotional pain that can’t be remedied—was the worst form of torture.

Contemporaries of Alexander Hamilton noticed "his conspicuous sense of self-possession, his unique combination of serenity and energy.

I would wanna be a mermaid, but I think I'm a little bit more of a unicorn, because I'm like a little bit more horsey.

Children don't drop out of high school when they are 16, they do so in the first grade and wait 10 years to make it official.

Ah, why should all mankind For one man's fault, be condemned, If guiltless?

It's true that every road leads to God. But only one way leads to a pleasant encounter with Him.

I just wanted to be an ordinary parish priest.

If you really want your kids to fly, you don't put stones in their pockets.

The panic attacks - I still have them. They started when I was around 8. They always have to do with my death

What is really important is what you learn after thinking you know it all.