Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

As a filmmaker, I always took my inspiration from a filmmaker named Marcel Ophüls, who said, "I always have a point of view, but the trick is showing how hard it is to come to that point of view."

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

Happiness is a habit—cultivate it.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.

We were all worried that nothing good was going to happen for Florida

Writing adds up to the conscience of our times.

If you don't trust either the captain or the ship, there remains only one thing for safety: Trusting the storm!

Women tend to love men in their presence, while men tend to love women in their absence.

Unlimited choice is paralyzing. The Internet has made this form of paralysis due to option overload a standard feature of comfortable modern life.