A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.

The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

There is no beauty without some strangeness

All suffering originates from craving, from attachment, from desire.

The believer is happy. The doubter is wise.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

This is the legacy of a compassionate bunch. Our fate now rests on the whims of men.

We won't be like Jesus if it's more important to us to be like each other. God doesn't compare what he creates.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

June is the gateway to summer.

The funny thing is, I don't actually think of myself as fat at all. I don't think I am. Not really.

The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

Always follow your own path.