The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

Gold conjures up a mist about a man, more destructive of all his old senses and lulling to his feelings than the fumes of charcoal.

YOU are the creator of your experience, therefore: all problems must be met within YOU.

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Budget thy expenses that thou mayest have coins to pay for thy necessities, to pay for thy enjoyments, and to gratify thy worthwhile desires without spending more than nine-tenths of thy earnings.

The composition is already there, you just need to crop it

Somewhere in all the snow, she could see her broken heart, in two pieces.

In the '90s, indie movies could get financing, because financers gave money straight to directors... Now it's a different system. Indie movies got co-opted by the studio system.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.