Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

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.

There is a moment of sheer panic when I realize that Paul's apartment overlooks the park... and is obviously more expensive than mine.

No man has a right to judge Andrew Johnson in any respect who has not suffered as much and done as much as he for the Nation's sake.

I am not an artist except that when I envision a concept, I sometimes indulge it.

The psychiatrists say that everybody should have a hobby. The hobby I recommend is advertising

I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

After my cancer diagnosis, I really took my swimming to a new level.

Vanity is the most despotic and iniquitous of masters, and I can never be the slave of my own vices.

Anybody who trusts an electronic voting machine should have their head examined.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.