Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.

I have seen so many lands vanish in my wake, torn down like stage sets. What survives of them? An image as fleeting as a dream: whatever beauties I discovered, I already knew by heart.

Childhood memories surge back more vividly midway through life – like some palimpsest whose original text suddenly reappears after the manuscript has been chemically treated.

I am the other.

Don’t wait up for me tonight, for the night will be black and white.

The last madness I’ll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me.

It is impossible for a Parisian to resist the desire to flick through the old volumes laid out by a books

And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.

Allow your mind to be still and rest in His presence.

That was really cool. I got to kiss a little boy. I was 7 and he was 10, and his name is Thomas Curtis. He was the first boy I've ever kissed in my entire life and he was three years older than me.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting

Laws should be interpreted in a liberal sense so that their intention may be preserved.

It's winner takes all, but a draw will do.

I often concentrate on the eyes and lips, they are great indicators of mood and feeling, and I find that I can project character into my portraits by bringing the viewer's attention to these areas.

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.