A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no one to break my chains!("Outcries")

An unknown force is calling mePerhaps the voice of that star perched on the last heightPerhaps the desire to see the spaces that conceal Europe

The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments

Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky...

I think that, on some level, everybody lives vicariously through couples who are getting married.

How I measure success is getting to make another record and being able to the come back to the same town and play again cause you sold out the last time.

The welfare state inhibits the maturation of its young citizens into responsible adults

We do what we have to so we can do what we want to.

If you think your job is to fix what is broken, you keep finding more broken places to mend.

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

I have to work very hard to look the way I do. I want the girls out there to know that.

While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me.