Poetry must find ways of breaking distance.... all languages are dialects that are made to break new grounds.

What is liberty? The measure of dignity.

I have nothing against the smell of rot but something against what hides the smell of rot in the United States of America.

It's true that things are beautiful when they work. Art is function.

Nativity is the enemy of prophecy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Metaphors and Similes are the beginning of the democratic system of envy.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

Questions don't change the truth. But they give it motion.

Only what is fated to die is capable of living. Only what dies lives.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

This dewdrop world Is but a dewdrop worldAnd yet —

Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

[My son] Michael came along and he played a little bit of everything. He went to Georgia Tech on a golf scholarship.

If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a Theory.

A lot of fans know that I love motorcycles. That's a big love of mine. I could spend days on the bike if I had the time.

I would love to have MS Dhoni in KKR.