It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

When you take a photo, you often take your own reality into your camera - the reality that you shaped in your mind - and not the real reality over there, whatever it is!

Do right simply because it is right.

The truth, when it matches with what we want, think, or believe already, we love it. But, when it doesn't, we either hate it or ignore it, or both.

The purpose of conflict is to create.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

We have to work with the police. We have to make sure they respect the communities and the communities respect them.

For better or worse, our future is now closely tied to human creativity.

I know you aren't perfect. But it's a person's imperfections that make them perfect for someone else.

Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.