a single generation enamoured of foreign ways is almost enough in history to risk the whole continuity of civilization and learning.

My job as a poet, is not to succumb to despair but to find in words, an antidote for the emptiness of existence.

But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

Talk without truth is the hollow brass; talk without love is like the tinkling cymbal, and when it does not tinkle it jingles, and when it does not jingle, it jars.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

I cling to nowhere until I fall - the crash of Nothing.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

Most filmmakers go out with the first feature and nobody cares.

I don't make a lot of mistakes, because it's hard for me to be wrong

Western culture has more need because they're so much more degenerated. They're so much more hurt, and misbalanced completely.

The art isn't there to be purchased - it's there to be enjoyed.