Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.

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.

Cheers went up around the decks as the Dolphins oars began to move as one in and out shifting and cutting away at the sea beneath, SICANIA RISING

A life has to move or it stagnates.

If you know EVERYONE, you don't know ANYONE.

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.

There are sordid souls that eat and drink and breed and die, and imagine they have lived.

the truly covetous have never enough!

You can make a movie that's more focused on the jokes, but Young Adult was not that kind of movie.

Experience is the best teacher. A compelling story is a close second.

We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal.