When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

Poetry has been the longest pleasure of my life.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

It is the impulse of our century, with its nearly religious belief in magnitude, to fling an institution into every void.

I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you can only do in actuality.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

Github is an excellent hosting service; I have nothing against it at all.

If your body is not in shape to sing [from the diaphragm] you will push and push but keep falling back on your throat to make the sound. This will ruin your voice.

Who is the Best Player in the World? Leo Messi.

I've always worn suits. To me they're a very practical kind of thing to wear. You put one on and don't really have to think about what you're going to wear.

The speed with which bureaucracy has invaded almost every branch of human activity is something astounding once one thinks about it.

Yes, times are not good, but when were times good? This is samsara.