My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.

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.

Dare to blaze.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.

All equity categories, correctly calculated, create near-identical lifelong returns. They just get there via wildly differing paths.

Wrongs are often forgiven; but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.

I hope people see us not just as a football player, but also as human beings, we are not machines!

In terms of relationships, women often completely over-estimate the confidence of men, and forget about needing to feel validated.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.