Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

I did not deceive him, he did not deceive me, I did not leave him, he did not leave me, I freed him, he freed me.

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we believe we left without having lived them, those we spent with a favorite book.

Books are a finer world within the world. (1863)

My bullshit metre is reading that as false'.

Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?

In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness.

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.

Corruption is one of the greatest enemies of progress in our time. It is the cancer at the heart of so many of the world's problems.

You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.

Loss avoidance must be the cornerstone of your investment philosophy.

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.