True poetry is embarrassing.

Nature is only another chimera.

Sacrilege is acceptable only as a game.

Hunger justifies the middle classes.

My greatest discovery has been my love of boredom and to get fun out of it.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with a science for ballast.

The beautiful must be incongruous.

Thought involves a little charlatanism.

The present is always the best, even when its rough.

There are only fools who believe that art is a serious matter.

So there you have it: you must believe in something...and that is universal! Believing in nothing is a belief system in itself.

To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.

A successful man never allows his faulty of discrimination and judgement to be distributed by the rising tides of his emotions.

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Birds are the most accomplished aeronauts the world has ever seen. They fly high and low, at great speed, and very slowly. And always with extraordinary precision and control.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?