Poetry can do a lot of things to people. I mean it can improve your imagination. It can take you to new places. It can give you this incredible form of verbal pleasure.

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.

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

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.

Climate change. Urbanization. Biotechnology. Those three narratives, still taking shape, are developing a long arc likely to dominate this century.

It is an interesting truth that the human body, liberated from its head, is in essence a bag of blood with a built-in straw.

At home we've played very bad. That's the reality. We finished good, but we had problems at home.

Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

I asked my soul: What is Delhi? She replied: The world is the body and Delhi its life!

There’s definitely been a change this year — and I’d like to have a boyfriend.

City life is no life for a country man; for such a man that life is a kind of damnation in itself.

One of the ingredients that made Cheers work so well was the great ensemble of actors we had. That's the case with any good series.

I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real.