On the meridian of time, there is no injustice: there is only the poetry of motion creating the illusion of truth and drama.
The most astonishing joy is to receive from the muses the gift of a whole lyric.
Most poets, like most people, try hard to be like someone they admire or they are possessed with an image of what they ought to be.
Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature.
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
I consider my films to be poems that are all as personal as my writing and as hand-made.
Amazement awaits us at every corner.
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.
London! the needy villain's general home, The common sewer of Paris and of Rome! With eager thirst, by folly or by fate, Sucks in the dregs of each corrupted state.
I always feel so pretentious talking about comedy and deconstructing it. It always feels somehow self-centred to talk about any sort of process.
I'm always looking for opportunities, even when they're not offered to me. I will have no hesitation to pick up the phone and call a director or call a writer.