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.

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

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.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe.

To not be optimistic about the human race, would be a disregard of the power of the Spirit who created All

I call 'Community' the best day job in the world, because between takes, I get to write music. I get to write sketches. I get to write movies. It's the best job ever.

I have a hard time retaining the lines. Even on set I make mistakes but I'm okay with that.

Your name is the most important thing you own. Don't ever do anything to disgrace or cheapen it.

You expect success, you respect failure.

I think guys understand love a little better than girls.

From the time I started playing, I've always been the high-energy, never-stop-moving guy.

I like to read either in motion or in water... I am happiest reading in the bathtub.