There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

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.

It is not yet a feeling that points her in a direction. It is just the feeling of a vacuum, a void waiting to be filled.

He was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator’s heartbeat

I have met so-called leaders who showed fear in a moment when strength was required, and they give leadership a bad name.

I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

It's always our touches of vanity that manage to betray us.

I love Karl Rove. He elected Bush.

I'm a big fan of being scared I like being scared. I like being involved in a film that will make audiences scared, that intrigues me.

I am very driven. I do believe in what I call "the G factor." I must be spirit led.

Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment.

The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the 'pure' experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.