It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared a one-room apartment.

Well-timed silence is the most commanding expression.

One is attracted to beauty. Beauty is the coordination of things, in such a way, that it is what attracts you. It's almost self-defining.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

They gave themselves up to the stars the way swimmers can surrender to the waves, and the stars took them without resistance.

And if you were a spirit, and time did not bind you, and patience and love were all you knew, then there you would wait for someone to return, and the story to unfold.

If it weren't for music, I would think that love is mortal.

Marxists are people whose insides are torn up day after day because they want to rule the world and no one will even publish their letter to the editor.

And how does God speak to you?" "In the language of everything that is beautiful.

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

You want to invent new ideas, not rules

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.

I have a level of fear going into every project, and that's what keeps me going.

I watch drama. I don't watch a lot of comedy. Watching comedy is like work.

Men like the kings and the queens because men are weak! No strong man accepts any king or queen!

Blondes have more fun, don't they? They must. How many brunettes do you see walking down the street with blond roots?

We all dream profusely every night, yet by morning we've forgotten ninety percent of what went on. That's why poets are such important members of society. Poets remember our dreams for us.

'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.