Poetry and prison have always been neighbors.

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.

Dreams fade with morning light, Never a morn for thee, Dreamer of dreams, goodnight.

The world is alive and no living thing has any remedy. That is our fortune.

Poetry is the one thing that isn't contaminated, the one thing that isn't part of the game.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it must have been scorpions.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

In the current socio-political climate, he said to himself, committing suicide is absurd and redundant. Better to become an undercover poet.

Being alone makes us stronger. That’s the honest truth. But it’s cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

The moon is fat and the night air is so pure it seems edible.

At the end of our lives, nothing remains except memories.

Persistence of action comes from persistence of vision.

It's too late. We can't win, they've gotten too powerful.

Dew depends not on Parliament.

I love it when celebrities fall apart, you want them to fall apart like Charlie Sheen.

I love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions.

Some minds are like soup in a poor restaurant—better left unstirred.

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Go after what you want, but enjoy the trip.

We don't ask what the Bible says, we ask what God says to us in that Bible. The difference is a difference between paper and person.