Just write a poem as if you're writing a note to one other person.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Her maktul katilinde yaşamaya devam eder.

Motivating employees to work at their full potential is the main premise of successful management.

Aglaya just rolled her eyes. "You're like a ten year-old.""Ten-and-a-half, " Kev defended. "But I read at a fourteen year-old level.

If you steadfastly refused to quit, you rapidly narrowed your options to only winning.

Most of the holiday movies I enjoy, like 'It's a Wonderful Life,' don't really involve Santa.

Lately, the world felt fragile, like a blown egg, as if it might shatter beneath a careless touch.

True in the game, as long as blood is blue in my veins I pour my Heineken brew to my deceased crew on memory lane

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

I was fascinated by quotations and lists. And then I noticed that other people were fascinated by quotations and lists: people as different as Borges and Walter Benjamin, Novalis and Godard.

They [Tom Hanks and Paul Newman] were simply always high level masters, and taught me as a kid actor never to be an a*shole to anybody, because it would be very tough to get past where they are.