It was autumn and falling stars Covered the shrivelled forms Crouched in the moonlight.

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.

A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.

Good music often starts in underground culture and then comes to the surface.

Don't ever marry a man who loves his work more than he loves you.

Sweet is the recollection of difficulties overcome.

Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

We can't think of any better way of becoming our best selves, than by finding something we're great at!

Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.

The thunder of love is unassailable.