One concept corrupts and confuses the others. I am not speaking of the Evil whose limited sphere is ethics; I am speaking of the infinite.

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.

I don't believe in your version of love, I have my own

My husband and I both have our bucket lists. Running a marathon was on mine.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

Fain would I glide down a gentle river, but I am carried away by a torrent.

Apocalypses don't happen very often. They tend to be separated by tens or even hundreds of millions of years.

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

Successful men don't date up. They are intimidated by wealthy women unless they are blue bloods. Successful men want to always take care of their women, and that means financially.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide.