the only truth is face to face, the poem whose words become your mouth and dying in black and white we fight for what we love, not are

O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.

And don't worry about your lineage poetic or natural.

That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.

Sadly, our society still perpetuates the false ideal that a real man should be all masculine, and a real woman all feminine. Neither is possible, nor desirable.

All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.

God shields the souls of the innocent the best He can from the Devil's torments.

One fantasy is that I just do a Don Roos movie every year if that's possible. If he'd have me

A little spoon for a cup of soup teaches to be patient; and the big one, to be greedy!

The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.

You're authentic when you're honest.