I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

A small act is worth a million thoughts.

Creativity is part of human nature. It can only be untaught.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

Maybe being powerful means to be fragile.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

I think art certainly is the vehicle for us to develop any new ideas, to be creative, to extend our imagination, to change the current conditions.

I think optimism is whether you are still exhilarated by life, whether you are curious, whether you still believe there is possibility.

The purpose of art is the fight for freedom.

When you're about to die, your whole life's supposed to flash before your eyes. When you fall in true love, on the other hand, what you see in the twinkling of an eye is your entire future.

Quite possibly the only infinite power in the universe may be the human capacity for self-deception.

It's simple as that... you don't like it, you don't read it. You like it, you read it!

My family immigrated when I was 3, and our predecessors inhabited the Korean Peninsula for as long as can be recalled.

Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

The whole problem is spirituality-not finances. Spiritually strong = welfare strong.

Friendth, Romanth, countrymen, lend me your earsth.

I think that my responsibility to my art is to try to get it right or to push the boundaries of what I'm able to do in any way.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.