Happiness is essentially a gift

The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

If you're frightened of the countless number of books in the library, you'll never write anything, until you close your eyes and hold the pen.

The more "things" I have, the more time I spend thinking about them, moving them around, fixing them, looking for them, or upgrading them.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

Everyone was so anti-wanting to be anything else. I guess a lot of bands say that but I think, for us, that notion - combined with our musical influences - ended up making us uncategorizable.

I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Vladimir Putin, and I think I would have a very, very good relationship with Russia.

I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it

In New York in 1915 I bought at a hardware store a snow shovel on which I wrote in advance of the broken arm .

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

I believe that poetry is a primal impulse within us all.