The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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 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.

The river is moving. The blackbird must be flying.

What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will.

barfly n. You have the ability to talk to anyone which is an ability I do not share.

Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Immigrants have been the sustenance and the survival and the treasure of America.

The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats and dogs.

What we publishers think is that our function is to bring everything out into the open, on the theory that we have an adult population that knows values, or can learn them, and let them decide.

Honesty is as much saying everything as it is saying what is true.

I recommend my students not to be professional unless they really have to be. I tell them, 'If you love music, sell Hoovers or be a plumber. Do something useful with your life.'

When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest.