Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me and treating me badly.

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.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.

How do you get free of the damnable books of Romance when everybody else is still living in them?

Its not about reaching a Peak but to develop an attitude of discovering new Peaks in Life!

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

And Fall, with her yeller harvest moon and the hills growin' brown and golden under a sinkin' sun.

One finds limits by pushing them.

Finish your stories! Read a lot!

Don't be afraid and don't let the past affect your present.

There is unspeakable joy... for the person who knows release from guilt and the relief of forgiveness.

The fact that the work is affirmed by the Museum of Contemporary Art I think sends continued signals that this is worth paying attention to, looking at, and understanding.