All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.

When men stop believing in God, it isn't that they then believe in nothing: they believe in everything.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Absence is to love as wind is to fire: it extinguishes the little flame, it fans the big.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

To survive, you must tell stories.

But Italy is not an intellectual country. On the subway in Tokyo everybody reads. In Italy, they don't. Don't evaluate Italy from the fact that it produced Raphael and Michelangelo.

Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.

We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Never lose sight of the people who are the foundation of the future you are working to build.

A lot of people simply don't realize their potential because they're just so risk adverse. They just don't want to take the risk.

Love is not shown by giving your toddler a car. It's better demonstrated by clapping as she bangs on pots or singing to her while she plays with her cheap little bath toys in the tub.

You'll be tested every single day.

When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

Whatever role I do, I've got to do the work. It all starts with the body. Get that ready and everything else follows.

The more coward you are, the bigger your castle is!

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

My hope for America and the activists is that they never, ever go back to sleep, and they keep fighting for social justice, equality, and decency.