To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

The only hope for civilization is the greater freedom, development and equality of women.

When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have.

Reading might be the root of ideas and inventions, even in the case of leisure reading.

We often look outside to find our hero when there is one inside of each of us. Be your own hero today.

If we lose a couple in a row this season, it will be like the World Trade [Center] is coming down again.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

I don't need to be rich anymore; I don't need to be a millionaire.

I have the thermometer in my mouth and I am listening to it all the time.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.