Unappreciated because too many of his [Rudyard Kipling's] peers were socialists.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.

I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited.

I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books.

The worst labyrinth is not that intricate form that can entrap us forever, but a single and precise straight line

The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book.

Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

The original is unfaithful to the translation.

A strong team is a group of people that feel like one nation

Worry is a futile thing it's somewhat like a rocking chair Although is keeps you occupied it doesn't get you anywhere.

There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.

We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.

The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small.

My top priority is to stop the cuts to our public schools.

The lower one speaks the closer a woman listens.

I am myself the matter of my book.

America is God equals America equals Business equals America equals God.

I found Jumpy on YouTube. I wrote a movie about a guy with a dog and was like, "What have I done? This is going to be a nightmare. We're a small movie and we're never going to be able to do this."