I felt ridiculously self-conscious, like the stick of celery at a luxurious buffet.

The only thing to do with tears is water your flowers with them, so that there is something to show the world when the sun comes out.

Some people grow older and more cynical. Some people become just the opposite. Life hurts without hope, and cynicism, once a luxury, becomes unaffordable.

If fretting was an Olympic sport, I’d own the gold medal

Human beings are very unpredictable in relations and there are no written agreements... Unlike in business transactions...

And at night, when it breathes delicately from silence - I love listening to your voice. It is like a heavenly graceful singing of thousands of stars.

When I was 14, I tried to stab someone.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Butler could kill you a hundred different ways without use of his armoury. Though I'm sure one would be quite sufficient.

Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection.

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

A poem is a small machine made of words. . .Its movement is intrinsic, undulant, a physical more than a literary character.