The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

Old formulas don’t give new solutions.

I'm thinking skywriting. 'Sorry I was an asshat. Please forgive my stupid butt.

But then, is there cowardice in the acknowledgment of fear? Is there cowardice in being glad that you lived?

People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

ISIS is using the internet to recruit. ISIS is using the internet to intercept and do all sorts of things to our country. We have to be many steps ahead of them, and we will be.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.