It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

Water is the soul of the Earth.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.

Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Few people take an interest in Iceland, but in those few the interest is passionate.

No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

No time for anything, little time for everything

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want a family so we'll have to start thinking about that.

In some ways, what I learned is that you can take a character and breathe with them, and its up to the audience to interpret rather than you putting moral stamp on the character.

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody.

If Obama's a tyrant, then he's pretty lame for a tyrant. How many tyrants do you know that really suffer because they can't get cloture? Very few.

Things from the heart don't have an explanation.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

I had lived a charmed life, and then I lost a beautiful woman I loved with all my heart.

The secret of every durable ... social system is the recasting of 'functional prerequisites' into behavioral motives for actors.