The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.

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.

I'm not up for changing the 10th amendment or the 14th amendment, the first amendment or the second amendment.

Define your goals in terms of the activities necessary to achieve them, and concentrate on those activities.

Pele wasn't as gifted as George Best and I would definitely put George above Johan Cruyff because he had more heart.

I'm much more comfortable singing than talking.

He gets into the habit of thinking so passionately at night that he begins to be persecuted by insomnia.

When an investor focuses on short-term investments, he or she is observing the variability of the portfolio, not the returns - in short, being fooled by randomness.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

Authors and uncaptured criminals are the only people free from routine.

Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

Color transmits and translates emotion.