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

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?

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.

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

I'm definitely not a follower. This is our job. This is what we do. If you're not having fun here, you shouldn't be here.

We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve.

I fell in love with you," he said, "because you were one of the bravest people I've ever known. So how could I ask you to stop being brave just because I loved you?

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Anything less than your best dishonors God

I worked in rep for six years, then I came to London and to the National Theatre. What's better than that

So then because some towns in England are not represented, America is to have no representative at all. They are our children; but when children ask for bread we are not to give a stone.

I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.

Long-term success depends upon trust.

Looking at her is like waking up.