My friend thought he was not gonna make it. Then he started thinking positive. Now he's positive he's not gonna make it.

It is grace to be forgiven of sinful acts, and grace to be supplied the heart for righteous ones.

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

Clearly understand that the only limitations you will ever have are the limitations you impose upon yourself. You truly do have infinite potential.

... artists were intended to be an ornament to society. As a society in themselves they are unthinkable.

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

I love to engage with people who come to see us.

Scientist believe in things, not in person

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.