Time forks perpetually toward innumerable futures.

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.

Whenever they met, the air crackled and sparks flew in the sky.

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

There are exactly as many special occasions in life as we choose to celebrate.

Our unconsciousness is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.

There is something greater than any nation; it is the spirit which created the nation.

Nobody can pretend to know what people want to read or hear or see. People rarely know it themselves; they only know it after the fact.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

It is for you to decide what you will contribute to this world... Will you contribute to the love that is in the world or the fear? This is the same opportunity that presents itself each moment.

I am fine. I feel really good. I am playing without any sort of fitness problems.

There is no creature so small and abject, that it representeth not the goodness of God.