Being in love, as both Plato and David Bowie have pointed out, is horrible.

That's what art is: escaping everyday normality, which wants to eat you alive.

Destiny cuts the cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

"Cynic" is a word invented by optimists to put down realists.

If you meet an angel, you will have not peace, but a fever.

Destiny cutsthe cake of love, Three slices to some, To others, a crumb.

[T]he real lie that advertising tells is not so much in what it shows, but in what it leaves out.

When I'm in love, I can't stand anyone.

Living a short life as a proud person is more worthwhile than living a whole century as a chameleon.

My dear poetry, There’s a likenessbetween your eyes and the stars–the same charming brilliance, my eyes have ever laid upon.

Um, yeah. I guess lying around reading books all day doesn't do much for physical endurance.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

The game taught me the game.

A singer for me is more like someone who is standing alone with a microphone like Scott Walker, rather than someone who is bashing a plank and is spitting all over a microphone.

Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!

It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.