When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Photographing friends means that there's a spontaneity to the images. I have a lot of love for my friends and family, and I love taking cool pictures of them.

We're gonna get away from political correctness .

Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

One who contends with immortals lives a very short life.

The stage play is a trial, not a deed of violence. The soul is opened, like the combination of a safe, by means of a word. You don't require an acetylene torch.

Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

The most amazing thing about young men is how invisible they were to you when you were young. It is also the most poignant.

I'm not used to feeling like I belong where I am.

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.