Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.

Through the dancing poppies stole A breeze, most softly lulling to my soul.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Shed no tear - O, shed no tear! The flower will bloom another year. Weep no more - O, weep no more! Young buds sleep in the root's white core.

Open afresh your rounds of starry folds, Ye ardent Marigolds.

And when thou art weary I'll find thee a bed, Of mosses and flowers to pillow thy head.

Neither poetry, nor ambition, nor love have any alertness of countenance as they pass by me.

You are always new, the last of your kisses was ever the sweetest.

The further from law you move, the closer to claw you come.

Everyone has their wings, it just so happens that mine are black.

Sometimes you have to go to the bottom in order to start at the Top.

[The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since.

My films have a bold interpretation. They are unapologetic about showing intimacy. Going by the number of people who come to watch my films, this is what our target audience yearns for.

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

America rules the world - by force.

If the devil walks in and starts pointing out all kinds of things about you, you yawn. And you go, 'You don’t even know the half of it.'

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

Dear me, I believe I am becoming a god. An emperor ought at least to die on his feet.