You can woo a girl with a poem, but you can't hold onto her with a poem. Not even with a poetry movement.

We're artists too, but we do a good job hiding it, don't we?

There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.

Write in the morning, revise in the afternoon, read at night, and spend the rest of your time exercising your diplomacy, stealth, and charm.

A person could be immensely happy reading only him or the writers he loved. But that would be too easy.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may be long or short.

The universe is amply supplied with night.

If you consulted your business experiences instead of your ugly individualistic philosophy, you would know that believing in himself is one of the commonest signs of a rotter.

God can and will break the labels that have held you hostage.

You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.

In that endless time, we are born in the same age. In that infinite space, to be able to meet and become one with you, that fate is really amazing and the miracle is really beautiful.

Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

You're charging money to have people come watch you play; I want them to feel taken someplace good or provoked into thinking my way for an hour and a half or two hours.

They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.

Actors take risks all the time. We put ourselves on the line. It is creative to be able to interpret someone's words and breathe life into them.

Truth is its own defense.