The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand

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.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need.

You can have anything you want, if you want it badly enough.

Freedom is not the capacity to do whatever we please; freedom is the capacity to make intelligent choices.

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares! Care and age come unawares!

Only when you stop identifying yourself with things that are not you, the possibility of knowing the nature of your existence arises.

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Creativity is neither the product of neurosis nor simple talent, but an intense courageous encounter with the Gods.

I am so crazy with my music taste and I'm so .... I mean, I'll listen to a song. I'll become obsessed with it and then I'm on to the next one. It's just very inconsistent.

Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.