In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

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.

Dating becomes a cutthroat game of musical chairs with everyone scrambling for available partners to avoid standing alone at 30 when the music stops.

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

If I didn't have most of my friends, I wouldn't have most of my problems.

The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

Life is a process, not a principle, a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved.

Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.

Who timidly requests invites refusal.

As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.