Poetry is an enumeration of birds, bees, babies, butterflies, bugs, bambinos, babayagas, and bipeds, beating their way up bewildering bastions.

Yesterday and tomorrow cross and mix on the skyline. The two are lost in a purple haze. One forgets, one waits.

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar.

Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence.

It is necessary ... for a man to go away by himself ... to sit on a rock ... and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.

Money is power, freedom, a cushion, the root of all evil, the sum of blessings.

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

It's only when people get involved, when there's money involved, that you have a lot opinions around you. I try not to listen to them too much.

hatred, however apparently justifiable, excusable or inevitable, always damages the hater.

When enough people agree on something, I'd be an idiot, if I didn't listen.

I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married.

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference between fantasy and reality.

The whole earth is the brave man's country. [Lat., Omne solum forti patria est.]

Art lies by its own artifice.

Also because I'm ambiguously ethnic looking, you know, I come to New York and I can be anything. People generally think I'm half of whatever they are.

I’m one of those people who doesn’t follow trends. I set them.