Useless to tell myself that a dreamand the memory of yesterday are the same thing

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.

The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.

If one felt successful, there'd be so little incentive to be successful.

The process of innovation is, of course, never ending.

Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

If you get bored of doing it (Peacock Pose) with two hands, try it with one.

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

If evil means to be self-motivated, to be the center of one’s own universe, to live on one’s own terms, then every artist, every thinker, every original mind, is evil.

The most that I can learn is in records that you burn.

One day, someone will get too close to the television, and I will pull them into this hell with me.