The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

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.

It has become a cultural norm in Jewish families for parents to bring up their children to value wealth.

Studies have shown that since women have had access to the pill and family planning measures, they have made huge gains in both wages and in careers that were dominated by men.

The world spends $40 billion a year on pet food.

I like L.A., but I think whats changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.

Which idiot put the GOP convention the same time as 'Burning Man' in Nevada? Is there time to change this?

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

A married couple are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time.

It's important that we remind the American people of what they already know about Obamacare - that the promises that were made were all broken.

Remember to be yourself.

The actual danger is nothing, and the positive advantages very great.