For a knowledge of intimacy, localization in the spaces of our intimacy is more urgent than determination of dates.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

We must listen to poets.

The philosophy of poetry must acknowledge that the poetic act has no past, at least no recent past, in which its preparation and appearance could be followed.

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

Everything you have was bought with the currency of time

An alternative to love is not hate but patience.

Smart, truly hilarious, and entirely sympathetic. Like a hot bubble bath or a holiday at the beach, you won't want it to end.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

You'll always make mistakes and you'll miss the mark sometimes. That's inevitably going to happen, because the best people in the world make mistakes - even people who are brilliant.

Life is just a dream on the way to death.

Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.

I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.

The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers... so sometimes I make them up.