There used to be one writer rather than a team of writers. It's the old line about a camel being a horse designed by committee.

There is such a shelter in each other.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.

It's an issue that Democrats and Republicans seem to come together on, the over-influence of money in politics and in power.

The hatred and cruelty which have their source in selfishness are ineffectual things compared with the venom and ruthlessness born of selflessness.

If it's planned, it's boring

Cheaters are people who have a lot of stuff to work out, and they're working it out on your time and with your heart.

Governments everywhere, including here in the Unites States, have created ever-expanding bureaucracies that regulate nearly every aspect of our lives.

Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.