Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

You have a contribution to make and unique gifts to offer. It's time to stop listening to the voices that tells you that you're not good enough, won't make it, or don't have anything to offer.

If you are with the right person, it brings out the best version of you.

In recent days, the media, as it usually does, has missed the whole point on immigration.

Most people don't get a fair crack of the whip.

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

Today is declared an unscheduled holiday.

Scar Tissue is the only book Ive ever written when Ive felt completely toxic, ill.

[on Kendrick Lamar] The new king of the West Coast.

Did you know David Letterman was offered millions of dollars to do a commercial for dog food?

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.