My tribute to mystical, magical trees that the Cherokee called "standing people. . . ."

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.

I know that suffering is one place where He ministers to us the most. So to think that we've had our quota would be foolish. I am just longing for the day when all the pain stops.

Five percent of the people think

don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom, but think of combating the forces of lust.

In order to perfect your craft, you've gotta go hard, you've gotta go overtime.

Ask you what provocation I have had? The strong antipathy of good to bad.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Color is the fruit of life.

All Nigerians must learn from Christ and be determined to imbibe the lesson of divine condescension.

I had learned to dwell with pleasure, as a beloved daydream, on the thought of the separation of these elements.

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.