God is in me or else is not at all.

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.

Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.

When you are through changing, you are through.

Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.

Sleep is like a cat: It only comes to you if you ignore it.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

What we feel most has no name but amber, archers, cinnamon, horses and birds.

When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.

Everything is fresh, the essence of realization.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

What I hope is to really focus on being a songwriter. I'd love to write songs for other people; that's something I'd really like to start doing.