The poet is the priest of the invisible.

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.

I had loved poetry and the theatre. Now I loved adventure more.

The primary method by which governments increase their control is by creating fear.

You go into any doughnut shop and look at three cops having coffee, I guarantee I look like one of them.

I seemed to be leading a very incongruous life from the point of view of the definition of the community I was in.

Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.]

The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother.

God has arrived. I met him on the 5:15 train.

Show me a frigid woman and, nine times out of ten, I'll show you a little man.

Life is too short to waste on the admiration of one man.

The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.