I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Sore muscles are nothing compared to the pain of regret.

Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

Edgar had a heart attack, and I'm to blame. We were making love, and I took the bag off my head.

A poem is something sacred. Let no one Take it for anything except itself.

At these award shows, I love to see what people are going to wear.

The world is a penal institution.

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the people.

Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors.