every choice has its obverse, that is to say a renunciation, and so there is no difference between the act of choosing and the act of renouncing

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 family has always believed that when we are faced with large and apparently impossible problems, the best solutions are found by the insane people, not the sensible ones.

Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.

Youtube was the start of my career officially, although since I was 4 I've wanted to be a singer. I've performed here and there before youtube, but youtube push me much further.

We must find out for ourselves that inside us is a god or goddess in embryo that wants to be born so that we can express our divinity.

[Hillary Clinton] is trigger happy and very unstable. Whether we like it or not, that's what's going on.

Over the wine-dark sea.

Throw out and keep throwing out. Elegance means elimination.

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

People ask the question, 'If you're offered VP, would you take it?' No, I won't take it.

We were language's magpies by nature, stealing whatever sounded bright and shiny.