The butterfly lures us not only because he is beautiful, but because he is transitory. The caterpillar is uglier, but in him we can regard the better joy of becoming.

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

The power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.

But pain is an impatient customer. It wouldn't be long before it demanded attention.

Create your own realitybecome your own rockstar, find your passion.. .and we will be here every step of the way with you

There is no other definition of socialism valid for us than that of the abolition of the exploitation of man by man.

there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is in our midst; not because there is not enough, but owing to the misdirection of it.

If I win I can't be stopped! If I lose I shall be dead.

Let nothing come between you and the light.

I'm looking forward to working with some of the best cast and crew there are.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that.

Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.