Nature is a word, an allegory, a mold, an embossing, if you will.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Music fathoms the sky.

Adversity is the first path to truth.

Hope makes people good, a lot of the time. You hope for a brighter future, and resentment is outweighed.

You told dad you didn't know what happened to his underwear. But You'd just flame-broiled his shorts on the grill.

I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

We would also lean on Turkey to ensure that it closes its border to the movement of jihadi groups.

Don't believe the hype that black North Carolinians are not voting. We've heard this time and time again. It's just not the truth.

I love funky shoes and hats. I'm into large-brimmed fedoras with big feathers in fun colors like purple and lime-yellow. I just think hats add pizzazz to your outfits.

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