“I feel myself inhabited by a force or being — very little known to me. It gives the orders; I follow.”

After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.

I have not looked at a newspaper in twenty years; if one is brought into the room, I flee. This is not because I am indifferent but because one cannot follow every road.

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism.

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

French people are Italian people in a bad mood.

The poet, by composing poems, uses a language that is neither dead nor living, that few people speak, and few people understand We are the servants of an unknown force that lives within us, manipulates us, and dictates this language to us.

The joy of the young is to disobey.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.

Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.

You have it in your control to determine what this country’s gonna look like the next four years.

My power. My control. My freedom. Unleashed.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

God has a plan and God is in control of everything.

Only you can control your future.

We need to continue to practice social-distancing and mask-wearing to get the virus under control.

We need to continue to practice social-distancing and mask-wearing to get the virus under control.