Above the forest of the parakeets, A parakeet of parakeets prevails, A pip of life amid a mort of tails.

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.

Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect, whether he chooses to be so or not.

I ache for you.

In terms of romantic films, all-time romantic films, I really like 'Gone With the Wind.' And I realize I sound so cliched saying that, but there's something so absolutely romantic about it.

a man who had fallen among thieves lay by the roadside on his back dressed in fifteenthrate ideas wearing a round jeer for a hat

There are old riders and bold riders, but no old bold riders.

Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.

Maybe she'd always been there. Maybe strangers enter your heart first and then you spent the rest of your life searching for them.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar.