And hence the poet must seek to be essentially anonymous, He must die a little death each morning, He must swallow his toad and study his vomit as Baudelaire studied la charogne of Jeanne Duval.

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

Existentialism means that no one else can take a bath for you.

What was the freedom to which the adult human being rose in the morning, if each act was held back or inspired by the overpowering ghost of a little child?

Even paranoids have real enemies.

Major writing is to say that which has been seen, so that it need never be said again; so that which has been seen increases, changes in reality, in being.

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.

Poetry must be as new as foam & old as rock.

Order and disorder, form and formless must have profound psychological roots, nervous roots.

How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love?

The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.

I claim neither liberalism nor conservatism - one tends to be airheaded while the other tends to be brickheaded.

An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.

I was always determined that races should begin on time and I never deviated from that policy.

Human history is in truth nothing but the history of the slow, uncertain, and surprising fulfillment of the Promise.

I was and still am a massive fan of [Murphy] Cillian's work - always have been. Obviously he's a great deal older than me, so I've sort of grew up watching Cillian's work. But I'm very much a fan.

I don't want to play a bad guy who doesn't have a bit of good in him.

I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Our vocation, to be beautiful, must be full of thought for others.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.