How cold the vacancy When the phantoms are gone and the shaken realist First sees reality. The mortal no Has its emptiness and tragic expirations.

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.

Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.

The first time you view a house, you see how pretty the paint is and buy it. The second time you look to see if the basement has termites. It's the same with men.

Anyone can possess, anyone can profess, but it is an altogether different thing to confess.

Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.

If I could be a third of the woman that my mom is and have a third of the strength that she has, then I will have done good by this life.

Humans do not engage in activities that are meaningless. If you think you see people doing things you find meaningless, look again and try to understand what the activities mean for them.

The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.

When mind knows, we call it knowledge. When heart knows, we call it love. And when being knows, we call it meditation.

I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years.

Populism is everywhere. We have religious populism in the Muslim-majority countries as much as we have populism in the United States of America.