Most of us lie because it is our last resort to get out of any uncomfortable situation.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Let those who can sing to sing on top of their voices and those who dance to dance to their very best rhythm.

I am pleased with the fitness that I have.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

It's just money; it's made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

Nothing's gonna change the world, nothing's gonna change the world. There was Lennon and a happy gun, there were words on the pavement.

The camera itself, the photograph itself, calls up death.