A lot of innovation in language comes from poetry.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

We should resume our language to science and leave the rest to silence

Criminals should be punished, not fed pastries.

To be irreplaceable you have to be different.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

Sipping once, sipping twice, sipping chicken soup with rice.

The library is the mathematician's laboratory.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

The tiger is humbled by memories of prey.