You know that the best you can expect is to avoid the worst.

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.

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

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

My vegetable love will growVaster than empires, and more slow.

You can't kill us all, human.' He was right. I raised the machine gun a little. 'True, but who's going to be first in line?

Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.

There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.

You can't really watch a theater performance by yourself. You can watch a movie by yourself, though.

A conversation does not have to be scintillating in order to be memorable. I once met a president of the United States, and his second sentence to me was about knees.

It's a very short trip. While alive, live.

Hmm... Death by mini bar, how glamorous.

If I were in this business only for the business, I wouldn't be in this business.

The basic fact is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push,so to speak.