Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

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.

A ‘biomass’ man does not use logical and analytical thinking

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Our court dockets are so crowded today it would be better to refer to it as the overdue process of law.

Almost all of my graduate students say that they got interested in dinosaurs because of 'Jurassic Park.'

If you are talented, don't sit in the darkness, light a candle so that others can see you.

Evil comes not amiss if it comes alone.

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

What kind of knife is this?” Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains’ inspection. “It’s all wrong. You couldn’t kill anyone with this.

The sea was not freedom; it was a likeness of freedom, a symbol of freedom...How splendid freedom must be if a mere likeness of it, a mere reminder of it, is enough to fill a man with happiness.

I don't believe in dining on an empty stomach.