If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

A poet is not an inventor. A poet is a player that plays with words on the field of human imagination to excite a reader’s mind with the colors of emotion.

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I think it was so unfair that people attacked Freida Pinto for being an Indian, playing a Palestinian.

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth to children.

A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours.

The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.