Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Personalized filters play to the most compulsive parts of you, creating "compulsive media" to get you to click things more.

We are all receiving Charity. There is something in each of us that cannot benaturally loved.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

That doesn't sound very attractive," laughed Anne. "I like people to have a little nonsense about them.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature... noises are as well articulated as the words in a dictionary... Opposing the world of sound is the world of music.

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

Nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, 'I'm a bad guy.' They think they're the right guy.

I'd won the Australian Open twice, but winning Wimbledon takes something special.

Truthfully I wanna rhyme like common senseNext best thing I do a record with common sense