If what is soft wears down the hard, how much the more so shall the words of the Torah, which are as hard as iron, hollow out my heart, which is flesh and blood.

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

All I have learned, I learned from books.

Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Two human beings anchored to one another are like two ships shaken by waves; their carcases collide with one another and creak.

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man.

I love interacting the fans and try to answer questions that people have. And I love when people are excited about projects, so. I am just a tweet away.

We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them.

No one knows what I am and really, I wonder if I do, at the end of the day.

To do a poem justice, explain what makes it unique; to get a poem noticed, explain what makes it typical.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy.