All of our ideas come from the natural world: trees equal umbrellas.

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.

Together, "Light and Knowledge" are Inanimate, Intangible, and Inseparable.

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . .

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

I think it is clear that what we ought to do has to be independent of our decisions about what to do, and independent of any procedures we might use in making such decisions.

The true measure of success isn't winning, it's whether you won & could actually deliver.

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society.

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

I just feel like there hasn't been enough time away from all this other stuff and into this new world or sort of big world that it hasn't worn off yet.

Obsessing on evil is boring. Rousing fear is a hackneyed shtick. Wallowing is despair is a bad habit. Indulging in cynicism is akin to committing a copycat crime.

Most people never pick up the phone and call. Most people never ask, and that’s what separates the people who do things from the people who just dream about them.