Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people.

I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language.

Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.

With every moment and every heartbeat, we change even though we still fear change.

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

I believe in not attacking a country pre-emptively unless you're sure of what you're doing and you're working with allies.

You have to be slightly blind to believe in any cause.

From one king to another, know that I'm giving you the middle finger right now." And he was, with a smile.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

The essence is that many procrastinators are "structured procrastinators," people who, like me, get a lot done as a way of not working on what they should ideally be working on.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

We are fossils in the making.