The genuine artist is never 'true to life.' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Some people behind leave a legacy, some leave behind children. Which would you prefer?

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Direction, not intention determines your destination.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

I think being funny had something to do with feeling like an outsider, not feeling cool - insecurity.

There is no access to contemporary poetry in the libraries.

Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.

It's always the script that's going to lure me. And I don't really care about the part.