Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the aesthetic emotions they offer me, and I ignore the commentaries and criticism.

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.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

When did we all become fluent in this language that none of us wanted to learn?

The social object of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.

Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?

True strength lies in action. Let the weak react to me.

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

My weight is always perfect for my height - which varies.

Each and every one of us has a vital part to play in building the kind of world in which government and technology serve the world's people and not the other way around.

No man is so wise that he cannot benefit by talking things out with others.