Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

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.

Every person, experience and circumstance are opportunities for spiritual growth and development. They are not coincidences… they are synchronicities.

It was early spring, 326 BC, in the beautiful city of Chersonesus protected by a haunting deep blue sea and a giant wall. Today was the second day of the Festival of Dionysus.

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

I'm drawn to the path of least resistance.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

There is a limit to human intelligence, but there is no limit to human stupidity

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Money can be more of a barrier between people than language or race or religion.