If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to be, to some extent, sometimes, a law unto himself.

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

The only way a man can realise his freedom, its only when he has freed his mind. Therefore, freedom means nothing if the mind is still not free. Free your mind and it will free your life too.

Instead of spending your dear energy on hating enemies, Utilize this energy to love your friends a little harder truly.[229] - 4 (Thoughts)

Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.

Words lie. Blood doesn't.

Every project is an opportunity to learn, to figure out problems and challenges, to invent and reinvent.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.

You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.

People forget that after we get to our hotel rooms at night, we take a shower, we watch TV, eat room service and do normal things. Behind our image, we are still human beings.

Love is selflessness, Self is lovelessness.