A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.

If you are not more alive when in love then you my friend are in love with the wrong one.

His heart cracked open and flooded all the space around it.

Is it sad to fancy David Tennant when you're dead?

The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.

Nobody's death is impending." ..."Well technically everyone's death is impending.

Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

If I knew how to write a poem, I wouldn't.

I do feel fortunate to have some great options.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.