The victorious army is victorious first and seeks battle later

There’s a fine line between child-like – learning as a child does, the natural way we learn most stuff – and being child-ish.

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

I tend to equate sadness with intelligence.

Deco, it was a pleasure to have worked with you.

When man to man shall be friend and brother.

I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like.

I think if people raise their consciousness and find a purpose, everybody will be helped.

I plan on getting out there and mixing with the crowd. I want to show everyone what happens in Times Square not from a distance, but from right there in the crowd.