You'll understand when you've forgotten what you understood before

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.

But do not fall only for what can be seen, there is more than just beauty and pleasure...

Steve had just met the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. Until now his engagement to Christine had never been a concern.

Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good.

Going door to door and talking to people, convincing them to vote - this is what I call Organizing 101.

There isn't anything that I cannot be or do or have, and I have a huge Nonphysical staff that's ready to assist me, and I'm ready.

The end-purpose of all art is enjoyment!

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit.