The universe is composed of an indefinite and perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries.

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.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

I realised nothing was permanently broken, I needed to take control and make changes.

What everybody's looking for today, they're looking for escape-ism.

There's no encyclopedia or book about parenthood. You learn on the fly.

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

The actual breakthrough in the privacy of the studio, when one dares to apply paint in a new manner, is a solitary thrill, dependent upon no one else.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

We all have other halves, and when they're feeling bad, we get a little piece of the pain

I know what I like, and I'm not trying to search for who I am.