The language you use for your poems should be the language you use with your friends.

To be wild is not to be crazy or psychotic. True wildness is a love of nature, a delight in silence, a voice free to say spontaneous things, and an exuberant curiosity in the face of the unknown.

... where a man's wound is, that is where his genius will be.

We did not come to remain whole. We came to lose our leaves like the trees, Trees that start again.

The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.

Every part of you that you do not love will regress and become hostile towards you.

We make the path by walking.

It’s all right if you grow your wings on the way down.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

The beginning of love is a horror of emptiness.

Every noon as the clock hands arrive at twelve, I want to tie the two arms together, And walk out of the bank carrying time in bags.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.

I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Kitsch of course only comes into existence when we recognize how and why it works.

Okay, I know I said I wasn't going to shake things up, but we're going to have to get some pants on this one.

[Our Constitution] is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.

When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

You don't achieve success by "taking it easy" or "working on it later." You achieve it thru persistence and hard work.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

I like fat girls. A woman can never be too poor or too fat. I'd take a poor fat girl over a rich thin girl like Kate Moss.