Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

The killer whale's heart weighs one hundred kilosbut in other respects it is light.There is nothing more animal-likethan a clear conscienceon the third planet of the Sun.

Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.

I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.

Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.

Let the people who never find true love keep saying that there's no such thing. Their faith will make it easier for them to live and die.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I cannot imagine any writer who would not fight for his peace and quiet.

I cannot speak for more than an hour exclusively about poetry. At that point, life itself takes over again.

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

If another soul took over your beloved’s body, would you still feel the same way about him or her?

Nature is the supreme cradle of life, and must be protected and treated with the highest respect and care.

I do believe that movies are subject to a million interpretations.

I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about.

Enlightenment is a perfect state of mind. It is the direct seeing of reality. The world most people see, which they call life, is really just a dream.

Oh, don't be silly - EVERYONE wants this. Everyone wants to be *us*.

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

If you want to know if someone is a "spiritual being" ask yourself, "Is he or she breathing?" If the answer is yes, then you know that you are in the presence of a spiritual being.

When my children were born, I made the choice I wanted them to be raised as Jews and to have a Jewish education.