Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.

True villains are extremely photogenic.

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

The imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

It is not everyday that the world arranges itself into a poem.

Every poet has his dream reader: mine keeps a look out for curious prosodic fauna like bacchics and choriambs.

One need not know one's karma, but have faith in life to be able to keep on going. With faith one can let go and let things take its course, embrace life and merge with it. Because she is the way.

Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid.

Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a lifestyle.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

I have been extremely lucky; I am a person who is currently living with a cancer that is under control.

Just let the wardrobe do the acting.

Sometimes holding on was all you could do.

I'll listen to pretty much anything good, but I probably listen to more "electronic" music than anything else.

I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.