Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight.

If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

My dad was an autoworker, my mom was a clerk. Until I was thirty-five, I never made more than fifteen thousand dollars a year.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

We have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Food nourishes you, brings people together, and I feel that anybody can bond over food.

I attribute all of my success to my Catholic faith. My faith has given me the ability to be a good father, a good husband and most importantly a good person.