When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarna

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 jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

The oppression of women knows no ethnic nor racial boundaries, true, but that does not mean it is identical within those boundaries.

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

You may have a fresh start anytime you choose.

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East takes guts, not guns.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content.

Highly engaged employees make the customer experience. Disengaged employees break it.