Imprecision is tolerable and verisimilar in literature, because we always tend towards it in life.

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.

Now she had to pretend not to love the man she was pretending to love while pretending she wasn't sleeping with him.

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.

When you are convinced that what you offer is yours, whether it be mediocre or of standard quality, your originality will make people love you in a way you did not expect.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good.

The way I look at it, a footballer wouldn't play in flip-flops or dip their feet in acid and then expect to get to David Beckham's level. My voice is my living, so I'll be looking after it.

The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have.

I don't think about the characters I choose to play, analytically or consciously.

And I Jack, the Pumpkin King, have grown so tired of the same old thing.