We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.

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.

That is the hardest thing of all. It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you're truly a wise man.

Your father says a wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountaintop.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

Suffering is wisdom's school teacher.

First wrong by brow-beater abuses the body of law. And the revenge of brow-beaten announces that there is no law in state. Says Bhutta

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

Because others have let us down, it is now our duty to face the hard truths and do the right thing--no matter the personal cost.

The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit

Our searches for numerical order lead as often to terminal nuttiness as to profound insight.

The Golden Age of science fiction is thirteen.