Perhaps; but I am a difficult person to live with. My difficulty consists in not wanting to live with other people.

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

When all else fails, philosophize.

We must cultivate, all of us, a certain ignorance, a certain blindness, or society will not be tolerable.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

All creatures come into the world bringing with them the memory of justice.

But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?

I don't think we are ready to die, any of us, not without being escorted.

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

Contemporary literature can be classified under three headings: the neurotic the erotic and the tommy-rotic.

People can look to me as a teacher, but I consider myself a student of hip-hop.

Love is heaven and fear is hell. Where you place your attention is where you live.

For he that once is good, is ever great.

You have to fight harder, dig deeper, and prove all the doubters wrongs.

Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone, I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One. I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done.

I don't consider Hillary Clinton to be the lesser of two evils.

There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.

The world invited me many places.