If a writer disbelieves what he is writing, then he can hardly expect his reader to believe it.

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.

It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp.

The demon blood inside me burned my soul to ashes long ago.I am a monster who once dreamed he was a man. Never mistakeme again.

We run away all the time to avoid coming face to face with ourselves.

Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.

I'm not sure we need half a billion dollars for women's health issues.

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.

Life's a lot easier when you're dumb.

Sufferings, adversities, humiliations, failures and suspicions that have come my way are splinters that keep alive the fire of my love for You, O Jesus.