Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

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

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

I always find intelligent people in the comments.

I have the power to multiplyLike all women, I am more than one

the man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?

To choose the ideal voice for a character is to give a character an ardent and vivid life, to allow him or her to speak, rather than speaking for them, in an older style of omniscient narration.

I can't be a wife. I'm not that sort of person. Wives have to compromise all the time.

If people are worried about the size of their trailers, I kind of say their priorities are off.