I'd hate to have a kid like me.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

What fun is it being cool if you can't wear a sombrero?

We all have different desires and needs, but if we don't discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.

When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.

The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.

There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

Don't wait to live. Live now!

A gen'rous heart repairs a sland'rous tongue.

One of kindness and integrity. I know I fail constantly, but I’m working towards being a reliable and worthy contributor to the world.

I don't need to think that I'm being loomed over my shoulder in order to behave in a way that's moral.

The best way to get rid of criminals is to stop raising them.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

Make the iron hot by striking it.

So much of my poetry begins with something that I can describe in visual terms, so thinking about distance, thinking about how life begins and what might be watching us.

I love food, all food, everything about food. I enjoy going to the market and having what's in front of me - what's fresh, seasonal - tell me what I'm cooking.