If a writer wrote merely for his time, I would have to break my pen and throw it away.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

To love beauty is to see light.

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.

Go out in the world and work like money doesn't matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

Directing the mind to stay in the present can be a formidable task.

John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

I get a kick out of being an outsider constantly. It allows me to be creative.

I don't know if there are topics that I unconsciously avoid, but as soon as they pop up in my writing, I try to take on those topics, whether or not I publish the poems.

I've done a reasonable amount of travelling, which I enjoyed, but not for too long at a time.

I wish I had more time to write.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

My impulse is to create an aesthetic that's about a humanistic approach to a world and trying to create compassion for all the characters.

It's nice to be important, but it's also important to be nice. Never forget that.

What is a woman? I assure you, I do not know ... I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.