I owe my first inkling of the problem of infinity to a large biscuit tin that was a source of vertiginous mystery during my childhood.

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.

Every great soul had great mentors.

It was always a mistake, she thought, to dwell on the cause of one's anger.

Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love.

I ski very aggressively, and the angles that I create with my body are similar to some of the male racers.

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

There will never be another Frank Sinatra. I never wanted to be another Frank Sinatra. I only wanted to be another Michael Buble.

The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.