There is no language without deceit.

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.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."— Seneca

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never short change yourself when you stretch your imagination.

Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference.

Free will is an empty term.

I mean, you're gonna be left behind if you don't appreciate the genius that is Meredith Vieira.

Do you know how powerful you are?

Motherhood is beautiful. Everything [my son] does makes me so happy.

But I'm attracted to roles where I get to really go in and explore a character.

The Canadians have managed to live peacefully with their Indians. It is disgrace that the United States has not done the same.

The good-news stories in medicine are early detection, early intervention.