The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

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.

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.

In politics, as in every other sphere of life, there are two important principles for a man of any sense: don't cherish too many illusions, and never stop believing that every little bit helps.

We have to learn that personal suffering is a more effective key, a more rewarding principle for exploring the world in thought and action than personal good fortune.

When I'm around you, it's like every dream I've ever had is standing right in front of me.

Sometimes we care others more than they deserve!

A few question marks are being asked in the Honduran defence

I try to make my bed every day for mental health. Coming home to an unmade bed or a room with clothes all over will depress me.

A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

To shelter and to hide, they have resigned themselves.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.

If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.