A poet's work consists less in seeking words for his ideas than in seeking ideas for his words and predominant rhythms.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

If you love a girl, you never give up on her, no matter how long she resists you.

You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.

I have never known anyone to win a battle waged against his emotions. When a sentiment hoists his glimmering blade into the air, the battle is lost before it has begun.

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.

Physicists can only talk to other physicists and economists to economists... sociologists often cannot even understand each other.

There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.

I serve dinner in three phases: serve the food, clear the table, bury the dead.

This would be so much easier if they actually issued black hoods.