If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

But Gulf War Syndrome is not one cause, not one illness. It is many causes, many illnesses.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul.

Make a movie that you can be proud of.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

You've got to be frugal. If you want to make one peso and you spent two, you'll never make it. You must be very stupid if you don't know what you should save on.

Those who do not trust enough should not be trusted.

I'm terrified of saying the wrong thing on stage with bell hooks.

The great thing about improvisation is that it allows us to establish an uncensored form of theater. Freedom of speech is absolutely inherent to artistic expression.