It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.

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 want help? Ask for help. You want love? Ask for love. If you want anything from the universe, anything from yourself, you must first ask.

Art is not about itself but the attention we bring to it.

Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.

I never read, I just look at pictures.

The force fields of nature are force fields of consciousness. They are force fields of knowledge.

I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

In the spiritual journey, you cannot be a wine taster, you have to become a drunk.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion, I loathe the country.