It is clear that there is no classification of the Universe that is not arbitrary and full of conjectures. The reason for this is very simple: we do not know what kind of thing the universe is.

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.

Life is spiritual.

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

We're nobody's dirty little secret.

I think I drift toward sad love songs.

Too much art was no art at all. Like candy instead of bread!

There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through.

Develop a mentor at each stage of your career - someone who will give you guidance and advice.

The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.