Disillusion is the last illusion.

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.

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

Nature answers every question.

Leaders make a lot of mistakes but they admit those mistakes to themselves and change because of them.

It's an embarrassment that we don't have a broad enough consensus among political leaders that true reform should take place.

I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.

When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.

Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land, God Bless the U.S.A.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that.