We have been a little insane about the truth. We have had an obsession.

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.

A politician is someone who knows everything about running a campaign and nothing about running a country.

Ragnor [was] always happy to see chaos, but not be involved in it.

the most sacred business of judges is not to ratify the will of the majority but to protect the minority from its tyranny.

In the end, there is really nothing more important than taking care of the earth and letting it take care of you.

Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!

Money is gold, and nothing else

The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material - the material informs the form.

He does not write at all whose poems no man reads

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.