We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

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 past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly

I trade with you my mind.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

He burst into one of his rare fits of laughter as he turned away from the picture. I have not heard him laugh often, and it has always boded ill to somebody.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

I don't come up with ideas, they come to me. I write them down and try to convey what's wrong with me to the audience as best I can.

We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.

I find it interesting how we get carried away by the dogma a-la-mode.

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task.

Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.