I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wilderness Surround that hill.

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.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

Getting your news from Twitter is like asking a cat for directions.

To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.

In the long run, greater investment would mean greater productivity and income growth.

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Pragmatism is an intellectually safe but ultimately sterile philosophy.

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.

Toting around a full orchestra on tour is very ambitious. I would consider doing a show now and then, like do a show at Radio City or Carnegie Hall with a full orchestra.