I am a Saturn who dreams of being a Mercury, and everything I write reflects these two impulses.

The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.

what matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.

Overambitious projects may be objectionable in many fields, but not in literature. Literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement.

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

When an individual is raped in this country, more than 90 percent of the time the rapist gets away with the crime.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.

Pity is not enough better than indifference to benefit materially either agent or recipient.

Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

Everyone is born with psychic abilities. It's just a matter of knowing how to tap into it.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Take care of your health, that it may serve you to serve God.