Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

...there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up.

It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.

I don't feel like I have the intelligence to really inhabit a consistently high level of prose.

A color is as strong as the impression it creates.

Everything is cause and effect. If you don't move, nothing will move with you, and nothing will move toward you.

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.

I go out on stage, and my intention is to make the first four rows bleed from their ears.

It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.