I drink to keep body and soul apart.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

You don’t make art out of good intentions.

Imagine – hundreds of years of constant learning. It’s truly amazing.

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

When will society, like a mother, take care of all her children?

I've loved the escapism of being another person, slipping into another character for a little while

The more deeply the path is etched, the more it is used, and the more it is used, the more deeply it etched.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

One hundred percent of the time, no plea bargain, no bail, you're going to the penitentiary - that will change the atmosphere in this culture of violence the president talks about.