We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

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.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.

Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!

When I run across something that feels like a real eye-opener, it's gonna have an influence on me forever.

Secondly, the Government of Sudan should commit to the disarmament and control of the Janjaweed militia and ensure that the targeting of civilians ceases immediately.

When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.

I'm not a Hollywood party guy.

My mom says that my dad coerced me into choosing the cello. He says that's not entirely true. I don't remember; I was three.

Stop going for the easy buck and start producing something with your life. Create, instead of living off the buying and selling of others.

Two women can't share a house comfortably, no matter how fond they might be of each other. It's got to be one woman's kitchen.

When you live for a strong purpose, then hard work isn't an option. It's a necessity.