I love silent films. The future is unwritten.

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.

You like them, " I realized.Noah's eyebrows lifted in question."Like as people.""As opposed to...furniture?""They're my PARENTS.""That is my understanding, yes.

Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.

Live each day as if it were your last

If an unjust law is passed and enforced, then anyone coerced to comply with the law is a victim of injustice.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.

Power travels in the bloodlines, handed out before birth.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

Live in your roots, not in your branches.

The desert has a subtle and a cruel charm. She destroys while she enthralls.