Photography has a meaning only if it exhausts all possible images.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

This was something they could not take from us - the freedom to imagine, to create new worlds beyond this one.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did.That was, he supposed, human nature.

Think and act positively by focusing on the positives in yourself, other people, and situations.

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

Like all familiar objects, it had become invisible.

If you don't keep the eyes of your heart focused on the paradise that is to come, you will try to turn this poor fallen world into the paradise it will never be.

Honduras has one of the highest murder rates in the world. The drug trade is responsible for much of that.

I don't have a publicist. I don't go to events or self-promote, or endorse things, or whatever it is people are meant to do in that world.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.