The things that are said in literature are always the same. What is important is the way they are said.

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.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

One thing that makes aikido is so powerful, it utilizes power of opponents to win the fight.

When we begin to know ourselves in an open and self-supportive way, we take the first step to encourage our children to know themselves

All art (after Duchamp) is conceptual (in nature) because art only exists conceptually.

If might is right, then the world will tear itself apart. We must strive to create a world in which right is might.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

It is pleasant to recall past troubles.

Religion is the most inflammatory enemy-labelling device in history.