We do not truly speak except at a distance. There is no word not severed.

Through the ear, we shall enter the invisibility of things.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

One rose is enough for the dawn

Always in a foreign country, the poet uses poetry as an interpreter.

Ah, the sun will catch me, in my disturbing transparency. What am I but an awareness of the dark, forever?

For the writer, discovering the work he will write is both like a miracle and a wound, like the miracle of the wound.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

My hands are full when you give me your hand.

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

Nations and governments come and go, but people remain, and therefore people are the ultimate foundation of what is real and worthy.

When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.

Public office is the last refuge of the scoundrel.

The only thing I like about being an actress is acting.

We discover and invent new ways of finding out the same old things.

Meaning does not interest me and has almost nothing to do with my decisions or judgments.

Love makes life a little brighter

Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.

Leaders such as Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Franklin D. Roosevelt and others promulgated a vision and a moving story of how their people could achieve a great purpose.

The werewolf film is a strange thing.