and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Find what you love and let it kill you.

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

You have to die a few times before you can really live.

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Criticism is good, you learn from it each time and you know that people are paying attention.

So the nature required to make a really noble Guardian of our commonwealth will be swift and strong, spirited, and philosophic.

Strikingly consistent across all of the battles in Sudan's history has been a fundamental conflict over what are and what are not seen as legitimate aspects of Sudanese identity.

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

Stand up for what you know is right.