Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

If you want your dreams to work out for you, you must work with them. Pay the price and have the package of your accomplishments in full versions.

As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.

People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team.

You have to pay people real money.

Photography is nature seen from the eyes outwards. Painting is nature seen from the eyes inwards.

Once we start thinking of ourselves as polluted, there is not much incentive to behave well, and the trip down the slippery slope is likely.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.

Careers can disappear just as quickly as they're made, so I'm in no hurry.