We always tend to distrust geniuses about genius, as if what they say didn't arouse much empathy in us, or as if we were waiting till some more reliable source of information came along...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.

Read at whim! Read at whim!

We can't tell our life from our wish

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

Pain comes from the darkness. And we call it wisdom. It is pain.

Except from the Americans—but every pearl has its oyster.

You must persistence long enough to triumph.

Stop competing, stop judging, stop comparing, stop blaming and better you, for you.

If it's not in your heart you're not gonna make it. At the end, looking back, you know its worth it.

A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.

Secretary Clinton doesn't want to use a couple of words, and that's law and order. And we need law and order. If we don't have it, we're not going to have a country.

I'd love to do a PG-13 animated adventure. It would be great.

In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

The tradition you have at the University of Texas is like no other. It helped me in the future where I got to play in 2 cities that were rich in tradition.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.