This web of time--the strands of which approach one another, bifurcate, intersect or ignore eachother through the centuries--embrace every posibility.

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.

Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.

‎"Broken does not mean non-functioning, or incapacitated, it does however mean ready for repair.

You have to modernise you have to change - you can't just be traditional for the fun of being traditional.

The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty

Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

When you fly high people will throw stones at you. Don't look down. Just fly higher so the stones won't reach you

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.