There's no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.

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.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, you're probably in the wrong bathroom.

Religion doesn't divide the society. The humans reading the wrong books to understand religion, do.

Words are a weapon, and rotten kids like Tyler Jones get a free pass when it comes to using them because the marks they leave are invisible. Why don't more adults realize that?

You know, one of the classics when somebody invents something, you go why the hell didn't I think of that.

When the impossible has been eliminated, all that remains no matter how improbable is possible.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.

The moment an emotion or fact is transformed into a photograph it is no longer a fact but an opinion.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.