The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

In between trash and treasure.

I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.

The great majority of men use their own short-sighted ideas as a yardstick for measuring the divine omnipotence.

I have a daughter and she's the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She gives me a good excuse to watch cartoons.

Integration is the most important asset Europe has, and the key component to European integration is the euro.

Success takes communication, collaboration and, sometimes, failure.

You can't converse with Alzheimer's sufferers in the way you do with others; the dialogue tends to go round in circles.

Whether it's on top of a phone booth or a $200 million soundstage, it's about stories.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.