We have stopped believing in progress. What progress that is !

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.

There's something quite special about a granny's house. Even if ten or twenty or thirty years go by, you never forget how it smells.

Increased physical activity enhances positive energy

Prayer was never meant to be magic, ' Mother said.'Then why bother with it?' Suzy scowled.'Because it's an act of love, ' Mother said.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

I'm like a monkey. You don't let go of one branch until you get a hold of the other.

The law of self-preservation is higher than written law.

The dog who doesn't bark is about a silence that speaks; it is a good metaphor for the Pariah voice, the dog's voice, that we can sometimes hear only when it does not speak.