Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

be my sonata, my cantata, my lovesing me something sweetbut not too sweet(or i may grow deaf to our harmonyas we decrescendo into silence)

since words are all we have of wings.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

If one really believes that the metaphysic one adopts has much to commend it, then one should obviously try to persuade others of its truth or acceptability!

My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent.

So to get to play for the Yankees was really exciting. Really exciting.

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

When you have a global mush, people lose their identity, they become pseudonyms, they have no investment and no consequence in what they do.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

Possession of a secret is no guarantee of its truth.