Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

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.

knowledge without application is like a book that is never read' Christopher Crawford, Hemel Hempstead.

The most loving, soft, and sweetest word in the world is “Mom.

If we knew when we woke up that it would be the last day of our lives, we would transform every little act of our daily humdrum into small farewells.

LIFE IS NEVER OVER.

Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

Steven Spielberg and I have tremendous amounts of money.

I think when you don't know where you stand with someone, they can surprise you in their goodness and their badness, and that makes them human.

I conclude that it is a fundamental mistake to think that salvation, justice, or virtue come through merely human institutions.

Race in America is not a problem you can go over, or around or under. You've got to go through it.