Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink.

Good music grows with age like a fine wine it's gets better and better over time.

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.

Some express, some write and some just feel it.

I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

I give dignity second place to expedience.

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish; that to do otherwise is to legitimize it.

The poem might come to you as you're preparing to teach a lecture, right? And when you say, "no" to that occasion, that poem is gone.

The idea of space is given to the artist to change if he can. The subject matter in the abstract is space.