[it's about] being bitter but patient with your own bitterness so you could learn to be wise and be kind of returned to whatever innocence you might have once had before you became bitter.

All the time we wondered and wondered, who is this person coming/growing/turning/floating/swimming deep, deep inside.

To hunger is to be alive and to hope.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

I think what you see [in Salome the play backstage] is an artist having this fit of temperament.

He knows to live who keeps the middle state, and neither leans on this side nor on that.

If you want to do something, you do it anyway, and handle the obstacles as they come.

It is not enough that poetry is agreeable, it should also be interesting.

You don't realize that you're intelligent until it gets you into trouble.

Well, I like shopping.

Simplicity is not so simple to attain.

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

A long time ago, I stopped trying to look at projects as genre exercises.

A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.