You are someone and you have a right to your life.

You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything.

To write a poem you must have a streak of arrogance-- not in real life I hope. In real life try to be nice. It will save you a hell of a lot of trouble and give you more time to write.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Assuming you can write clear English sentences, give up all worry about communication. If you want to communicate, use the telephone.

An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.

Don't write love poems when you're in love. Write them when you're not in love.

Say nothing and just make music and you'll find plenty to say.

Don't write with a pen. Ink tends to give the impression the words shouldn't be changed.

A good creative-writing teacher can save a good writer a lot of time.

Think small.... If you can't think small, try philosophy or social criticism.

I sweat. If anything comes easy to me I mistrust it.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

You think that enlightenment is something other than what is happening right now. This is your primary mistake.

Everybody has the same amount of time during the day. You can either spend your time or invest your time.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

I would advise all youths aspiring to athletic fame or a professional career to practice clean living, fair play and good sportsmanship.

If you deconstruct Greece, you will in the end see an olive tree, a grapevine, and a boat remain. That is, with as much, you reconstruct her.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Business is an establishment that gives you the legal, even though unethical, right to screw the naive-right, left, and in the middle.