We might remember ... not to fear death; it is the only way to be cleansed.

Seagulls . . . slim yachts of the element.

Meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

You making haste on decay: not blameworthy; life is good, be it stubbornly long or suddenly A mortal splendor: meteors are not needed less than mountains: shine, perishing republic.

Cruelty is a part of nature, at least of human nature, but it is the one thing that seems unnatural to us.

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is.

Long live freedom and damn the ideologies.

A little too abstract, a little too wise, It is time for us to kiss the earth again, It is time to let the leaves rain from the skies, Let the rich life run to the roots again.

Still the mind smiles at its own rebellions.

Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts.

The sin of self is a deadly sin.

When you win nothing hurts.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

We're not playing solitaire out here.

In the face of excruciating pain and uncertainty, I never lost hope, and it never occurred to me to stop fighting - not ever.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

It's a real stumper to sit around and try to think in your own head, but when you go into somebody else's head that takes the foot off the breaks. You can think in someone else's head.

I don't like hearing that I've lost weight. I like hearing that it looks like I have gained weight?!

I think so many families are touched by illness and loss, and we kind of overprotect our children often, you know, we sanitize.

I read once that elegance is a privilege of age. I thought, that's so true. You get more comfortable with yourself as you get older.