One literature differs from another, either before or after it, not so much because of the text as for the manner in which it is read.

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.

Growing Up' ----To become someone, to reach outfor things you have dreamt of.There is nogoing back.

Even though you can't control outcomes for your child, you can parent unconditionally with all your heart.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

Fashion is not always about what's new, it's also about what's good. And I think if you need to see what's good, you have to be there.

Nobody is more truthful when he's acting than De Niro.

I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. .