It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

The art is not, to tell. The art is, not to tell.

When frustrated and weary take time to accept that there is no such thing as an insurmountable mountain...You merely have to find the right path...

I think that instead of feminism being a political thing, it should be an act of creativity. It's more of a rock n' roll thing.

There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed. ... It is a lawless element, full of surprises.

That Loor's a handful, she is." - Spader (Black Water)

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Without you, there'd be no sun in my sky, there would be no love in my life, there'd be no world left of me.

Hopefully I can inspire lots of people to learn about [Patti Smith], to read poetry or learn about William Blake or Arthur Rimbaud.