I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.

The future is always beginning now.

We’re only here for a short while. And I think it’s such a lucky accident, having been born, that we’re almost obliged to pay attention.

If every head of state and every government official spent an hour a day reading poetry we'd live in a much more humane and decent world.

Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.

Once you start describing nothingness, you end up with somethingness.

Poetry is, first and last, language - the rest is filler.

I feel that anything is possible in a poem.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is, not to lie, but to imagine what you want, to follow the direction of the poem.

Ink runs from the corners of my mouth. There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry.

Poems not only demand patience, they demand a kind of surrender. You must give yourself up to them. This is the real food for a poet: other poems, not meat loaf.

When something poses as obstacle to you, surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.

Something I keep coming back to in my music is the tension between two extremes: healing and chaos, hope and anxiety - these big themes are inside us, flickering, all day.

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad. And when past its prime, it is similarly deadly.

Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Notorious sinners didn’t kill Jesus. Religious people did.

I'm a big fan of spinning and yoga. To strengthen my core, kick-boxing is really effective. The resistance tones everything, and it's a great stress reliever.

If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

Donald Trump has to be Donald Trump. And the country will organize itself around who he is.