Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

The safest way to avoid the world is through art; and the safest way to be linked to the world is through art.

I am betrayed and played but right now im feeling nothing pain but to forgive, it's because I love God too much that I can't hate.

When we're alive, life consumes us. But when we die, all of the color and the motion is gone so quickly, it's as though it can no longer stand to be wasted on us.

You can keep your willpower, Frog. I am going home to bake a cake.

i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Instead of three networks you have three hundred or three thousand. Audiences are inundated with programming, and that sometimes gives them a sense of petulant entitlement.

Old gold has a civilizing virtue which new gold must grow old to be capable of secreting.

They didn’t get me, I should have said. They saved me.

I got some media coverage for using the tail, the ear, the oink.

Neocons say we attack them because they are Jewish. We do not. We attack them because their warmongering threatens our country, even as it finds a reliable echo in Ariel Sharon.