Things taste sweeter when you have some hunger left to linger. You feel it hunting your head for buried things

The end is never the end. It's always the the beginning of something.

Blood can help make family, but family often transcends blood.

. . .you sounded frustrated and pissed off and amazingly happy

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

A person creating a space in his life for something that he doesn’t deserve at all gets readily someone whom he doesn’t desire in all.

Don't take counsel of your fears or naysayers.

I'm not the kind of poet who arranges treasure-hunts to please the academics and keep them busy. Poetry should be surprising in deeper ways.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that they had been spying on me all along.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.