Who do you serve? Do you serve somebody? I serve the poem, no one.

It's necessary to maintain a state of disobedience against...everything.

Writing poetry is what I am. I wouldn’t know what else to be.

In love there is no because.

Abolish these categories of pain(or is it love)Let it all be one painPain swallows itself, dies like a star.

Feeling awful is physiological you say.God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?

I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

And maybe you can’t know me now.   Maybe I’m just blood. Whatever that’s for.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

This guilt is a joke, and it’s exhausting to watch you martyr yourself.

It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.

For me, I've always been one that reads a script and has been ready, wiling and able to go out and fight for parts.

That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us are idealists. You start out that way, anyway.

Futures not achieved are only branches of the past: dead branches.

I am the same person I was before receiving the Nobel Prize. I work with the same regularity, I have not modified my habits, I have the same friends.

When you grow up in the [film] industry, the director is your father. You follow your father's lead, but you make your own way.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

Coming up with the answers quickly and accurately is what counts the most.