If now in some ways I drink too much, it’s not that I lack a reverence for the world.

We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.

To get lost in the ecstasy and elegance of life, let me dive in the depth of love.

If I let the past and my goals be the only thing that drives me in life, I will never know the meaning of being happy.

What you do is so loud, I can't hear what you say."Anonymous

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.

If you look at polls, Hillary Clinton is considered the toughest in a field of men. That's no small victory for her going towards a general election.

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

As a painter you're responsible yourself, 100 percent. In film, you have the editor, the director, the other actors. It has the advantage of not being solitary.

I'm a kid from New York, so urban life reflected into art and music was around me and accessible and tangible.