The mind was dreaming. The world was its dream.

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.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

A positive attitude turns "I can't & I won't, " into "I have & I WILL!

Sometimes all you know about where you're going is that it's away from where you are.

The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

The nation of Dubai banned the movie Charlie's Angles because it's "offensive to the religion of Islam." Apparently, the religion of Islam is offended by anything without a plot.

I don't think it's possible to write a good play or paint a good picture and be a good Republican.

I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

I've been able to read people my entire life, because I've interviewed people now for 20-some-odd years. So you can read people that way.