The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

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.

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

If he didn’t want to talk about it, I wouldn’t mention anything. I wanted him to open it up for me, not me intruding and asking questions to him.

Music is the art of the prophets the only art that can calm the agitations of the soul it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

Trusting God doesn't alter our circumstances. Perfect trust in Him changes us.

I've worn black today, because I've heard so often that it's supposed to be slimming. But instead I am this sphere of darkness submarining through the halls.

By their very nature bureaucracies have no conscience, no memory, and no mind.

Uncle Remus, who said to Uncle Ben, You're a credit to your rice. Never got a dinner!

Listen to your instincts, then do the opposite.

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.

I think a healthy connection with the natural world actually makes us more human.