A bad poem is one that vanishes into meaning.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

I love writing every song I can like a little mini movie. I like to have a character, or some characters, and really paint a picture with the song.

Jamal Crawford reminds me the most of myself, the way he goes to the basket. But they need leadership.

This is a dream as old as America itself: give me a piece of land to call my own, a little town where everyone knows my name.

For my part I consider the earth very noble and admirable precisely because of the diverse alterations, changes, generations, etc. that occur in it incessantly.

Make up your mind that no matter what comes your way, no matter how difficult, no matter how unfair, you will do more than simply survive. You will thrive in spite of it.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

An enemy's gift is ruinous and no gift.

Visualising something organises one's ability to accomplish it.