American poetry to me is a sort of relentless, nonstop sermon on human autonomy.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Feelings are not as uncomfortable to experience as they are to express.

My family is my life, and everything else comes second as far as what's important to me.

I love a sandwich that you can barely fit in your mouth because there's so much stuff on it. The bread should not be the main thing on a sandwich.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.

What bothers me is that Jim Bakker lies. Jim Bakker knows for a fact that I was virgin.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.

Nelson Mandela once said "I can't help it if the ladies take note of me; I'm not going to protest."

I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system.

Tears streamed down my face as I crossed the finish line. I was a new person, a runner.