Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their complaints.

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.

No man was ever yet a great poet, without at the same time being a profound philosopher.

Cool people are only cool for the first thirty minutes of knowing them. After that, they just become annoying.

There was so little I wanted to carry. Packing my backpack took me all of four minutes

We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.

A theatre receives recognition through its initiative, which is indispensable for first-rate performances.

Reality is a genre that seems to be here to stay. I don't know how many of the new shows will last, but the more competition you have, the harder that pie is to slice up.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism

Brown for first course, white for pudding. Brown's savoury, white's the treat. Of course I'm the one who's laughing because I actually love brown toast.

If [Donald Trump] really has an agenda to help, let him move forward with it. We'll see.

That's software in the States that I helped to develop. It enables people with disabilities to improvise.