A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

No dream symbol can be separated from the individual who dreams it, and there is no definite or straightforward interpretation of any dream.

Oh, for the wonder that bubbles into my soul.

My life is very simple. I like simplicity and for my time to be my own, so that I have the freedom to devote the majority of it to Islam.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

Aphorisms are not true or false, but pointed or flat.

What you must accept as a parent is that you cannot always be there for your child without sometimes ruining everything.

My grandmother would croon over every scrap of meat on a sparerib like a medieval relic hunter musing on the knucklebone of a saint.

Morally it makes no difference whether a person is killed in war or condemned to starve by the indifference of others.