We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.

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.

I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.

The most dynamic cities have always been immersed in the critical innovations of their time.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

Here's an interesting figure: 43 percent of the incoming congressional freshmen are millionaires. The other 57 percent are Democrats.

Strategy is the articulation of the overall objectives along with general guidelines on achieving those objectives.

An annibaptist is a thing I am not a member of:I am a Pisplikan just now & a Prisbeteren at Kercaldy my native town which thugh dirty is clein in the country.

Dada is the sun, Dada is the egg. Dada is the Police of the Police.

The Golden Globes are always fun because everyone's drinking.

In the plays of Shakespeare man appears as he is, made up of a crowd of passions which contend for the mastery over him, and govern him in turn.

When I look at my fellow competitors, I say to myself, 'I many be nervous, but you are definetly nervous as well.'