The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.

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.

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

If I am to truly become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian.

In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

All I'm thinking about today is cleaning my bathroom.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I make an active effort to remain a positive role model to kids. They need people to show them there's another way.

If you don’t intend having a compromise, you don’t negotiate at all.

You have to learn how to be married. You have to learn to love somebody.