We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I have no friends, there are only people I love.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

Geniuses are like ocean liners: they should never meet.

The painting of tomorrow will use the photographic eye as it has used the human eye.

Language was not given to man: he seized it.

I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions.

I'm only interested in poetry.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

Beauty loses its relish; the graces never.

My council to Ted [Turner] is that he should watch Fox Business. He'll be elated to find how much substance there is in our news.

I'll do things that maybe other people would be afraid to do or afraid to say. But in my personal life, I'm actually very responsible with my personal relationships.

Love is the action of soul satisfaction.

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?