The more one was lost in unfamiliar quarters of distant cities, the more one understood the other cities he had crossed to arrive there.

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.

Because I want to be treated as equals, not sequels.

Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.

By night the skyscraper looms in the smoke and the stars and has a soul.

Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

That's like buying asparagus and then leaving it at the checkout. Why would you do that?

If you don't want women to do whatever they need to do then you must provide them with food, you must provide them with shelter and their basic human rights.

To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.

Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.

Work on the accent, it will enliven the whole.