I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Unfortunately, poetry is not born in noise, in crowds, or on a bus. There have to be four walls and the certainty that the telephone will not ring. That's what writing is all about.

To reach for yourself is to survive, to reach for others is to provide.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with.

A British pressing with a compilation of the best stuff really, I mean actually not only that but, these were all kind of semi hits for the people on it in America.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

U.S. corn exports to CAFTA countries will benefit from reduced tariffs and duty-free access for corn products.

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

That's the thing with independent cinema: They all get good reviews, and they don't make money. Some of them are good. Some are great. And some are terrible.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

There is a fun, flippant side to me, of course. But I would much rather be known as the Ice Queen.