I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond.

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.

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

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.

Life went on. Death went on. The war went on.

When you really know somebody you can’t hate them. Or maybe it’s just that you can’t really know them until you stop hating them.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents faces and the applause, and folding my little self in half and thinking, I could get used to this. And I just never stopped.

The best condition in life is to be not so rich as to be envied nor so poor as to be damned.

Without exception, every person who has a great life used love to achieve it. The power to have all the positive and good things in life is love.

There are two kinds of suffering in this life. That which pursues us and that which we doggedly pursue.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers.