I'm always talking about how the poems I am most obsessed with are like people: complex and unknowable and with a huge capacity for many different emotions.

I'm always telling my students that the weirdest thing is the truth. I mean, the fact that we get up in the morning and put on clothes is weird.

There's so much rage in the world now and I'm finding poems to be the place where I want to stay. I rage and rage and then write a poem and return to breathing.

I am not obsessing.I am just sitting hereperforating this post-itwith a push-pin.

People have done this before, but not us.

If we could light up the room with pain, we’d be such a glorious fire.

I'm thirty-five and remember all that I've done wrong.

Be careful of fake faces, the most honest the most evil.

Assessments should compare the performance of students to a set of expectations, never to the performance of other students.

There's no buying a greasy breakfast in L.A. - it's all organic juices.

I can categorically tell you that Mario Balotelli will not be at Liverpool.

roads were made for journeys not destinations

There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough.

It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

It is Love and the Lover that live eternally - Don't lend your heart to anything else; all else is borrowed.

Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave.