If space is infinite, we may be at any point in space. If time is infinite, we may be at any point in time.

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.

You are a product of the stories you believe and accept.

Success is achieved when we add value to ourselves. Significance is when we add value to other. Success is attracted to people of value and significance

My brain's gone, my soul's worn and my spirit is torn The rest of my body's still bein operated on.

I devoted myself simply to being a solitary person entrusted with a specific task.

You have no control over how much talent you possess. You control only what you do with it.

This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.

As you get older, don't slow down. Speed up. There's less time left!

Really the best way to learn about something is simply to read it and not make a scientific theory of interpretation.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.