Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

If there is nothing else there is this: to be inundated, consumed.

As America slept, our constitutional quilt was slowly being unraveled by special interest... I hope you like the cold.

When we hear our souls speak, we are free.

It is worthy of note that killing oneself and killing someone is not the same. For the former, one should lose one’s faith, for the latter, one should never have any.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

It's called 'reading'. It's how people install new software into their brains.

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.