For poetry there exists neither large countries nor small. Its domain is in the heart of all men.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Like a bird with broken wing that has traveled through wind for years . . . I sleep and my heart stays awake . . .

They were lovely, your eyes, but you didn't know where to look.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

I think the Swedish Academy wished to manifest its solidarity with the living spirit of Greece today.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

And if the soul Is to know itself It is into a soul That it must look: The stranger and the enemy, we've seen him in the mirror.

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.

Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.

Don't turn blue all over now.

The thought of death destroys some people and saves others.

One of my first records that I heard was 'Wish You Were Here' by Pink Floyd.

Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

Ordering pizza and jamming out with the contestants in our hotels and traveling the country together brought me so much joy.

I am fevered with the sunset, I am fretful with the bay, For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.

Let me give you some advice: make friends with a millionaire when he's a friendless sixth-grader.

Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.