It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to reality.

People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

When youre a young English person who wants to be an actress and you have dreams, you dream of being Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench.

I have a similar issue with people who hire me as I do with women. 'You have to have a particular taste to want to be around me. I have a slightly askew view.

Remember that most people (those who are not photographers) don't even see the things that you missed. Many don't even look. Ergo, you are way ahead of the game.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

I need to be agile because I do all my own stunts.

Taste has no system and no proofs.