Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are, to recreate the familiar, eternalizing the poet's own perception in unique and original verbal form.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I have no enemies. But my friends don't like me.

How little our careers express what lies in us, and yet how much time they take up. It's sad, really.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

As a child, I thought I hated everybody, but when I grew up I realized it was just children I didn't like.

What will survive of us is love.

Sexual intercourse began in 1963 ... / Between the end of the Chatterley ban/ and the Beatles first LP

Things are tougher than we are, just As earth will always respond However we mess it about.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don't have any kids yourself.

We were not born with a purpose of marrying and giving life to a son-animals are able to have children too and they can have many more children than we do

Fill your heart with pure love

Taking risks gives me energy.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

It's like hip hop all over again, back in the '70s back in the Bronx, when it was just bubbling. But it's going to be huge.

One man's death: that is a catastrophe. A hundred thousand dead: that is a statistic

Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would." So that's been really helpful to recognize.

All I ever wanted to be was a Ninja... Tong from Kickboxer, Sagat from Street Fighter.

Health is not the mere absence of disease, it is the dynamic expression of life.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.