What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?

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.

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

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.

The price for Greatness comes with Great loss.

I'm a student. I want to do better, and I want directors who can find the actress in me and be my teachers. I'm interested in the whole process of editing, post-production and direction.

Advertising is brilliant. It's an industry that spends billions and billions of dollars to get you to react the way it wants you to react.

A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.

Love is bigger than any tidal wave or fear.

There is a patience that cackles. There are a great many virtues that are hen-like. They are virtue, to be sure; but everybody in the neighborhood has to know about them.

I realize, of course, that I wasn't born knowing how to read. I just can't imagine a time when I didn't know how.

A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

The historical novel gives us perspective on our modern lives and helps us connect with the story, which we are continuing ourselves.