To live in the world but outside of existing conceptions of it.

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 am in control here, in the White House.

Excellence-moral, ethical, personal excellence-is worth whatever it costs.

No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Life without music would be an intolerable insult.

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you, but what happens inside of you.

I'm a terrible drummer. I can tune 'em pretty good, but I'm a pretty bad drummer.

Pop stars should not eat.

The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.

You freaking, flippin’, moronic frat boy!

Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.