Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

To define is to kill. To suggest is to create.

It is the job of poetry to clean up our word-clogged reality by creating silences around things.

Paint, not the thing but the effect which it produces.

Poets don't finish poems, they abandon them.

Everything that is sacred and that wishes to remain so must envelop itself in mystery.

I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only one perfect expression, Poetry. All the rest is a lie.

The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.

You don't make a poem with ideas, but with words.

when parameters are not set for man, there is always an unknown abuse

[Cinema]… obeys the laws of the mind rather than those of the outer world.

That's the way love sounds, my mother told me. You think it should feel like honey, but instead it cuts like a knife.

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

I wish the children could be taught early on that our thinking creates our experience.

I think I understand the line between my job and the director's. I have no interest in directing. Not my movie, not your movie, nobody's movie.

The California constitution provides that our judges are elected, not appointed. They are serving at the pleasure of the people and they are accountable to the people.

The biggest risk in life is not risking.

Find the sweetness in your own heart, then you may find the sweetness in every heart.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.