Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

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.

Stay present, stay conscious.

He wasted his wishes on wishing.

No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life.

Most of the successful people I know mostly listen, not talk.

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day.

And so, whether they came here on the Mayflower, on a slave ship, or on an airplane from Havana, we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that saved the world.

Art is significant deformity.

I am God and I am coming to find you.

Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone.