Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

I love foolish people because I am not enough of a fool to not love them.

Worry is the opposite of power.

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.

Life! Don't talk to me about life!

Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.

I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.

Like the color black, business mixed with anything turns to business.

I was a king and a king's heir and now I am a slave.

My definition of success is not having things thrown at me!

We're not getting involved in terms of sending ground forces into Libya. Let's be clear about that. And indeed the UN Resolution forbids that. It says no foreign occupation of any part of Libya.