The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Find out what makes you happy and do it. If you are happy, you bring happiness for the world.

Dear God, I must be dead and in hell since you're here.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.

High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this.

They need a role model. They need a star!

I don't wear rubbers cause you can't catch it twice.

The new source of power is not money in the hands of a few, but information in the hands of many.

Acting was all I ever really wanted to do.

To the whole world you might be just one person, but to one person you might just be the whole world.

...Wild to hold, though I seem tame.