One gets to the heart of the matter by a series of experiences in the same pattern, but in different colors.

Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

I was last in Rome in AD 540 when it was full of Goths and their heavy horses. It has changed a great deal since then.

New beginnings and new shoots Spring again from hidden roots Pull or stab or cut or burn, Love must ever yet return.

What we now call "finance" is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now.

Procrastination robs the world of countless treasures.

Jem put the full force of himself into each smile, so that he seemed to be smiling with his eyes, his heart, his whole being.

Have you ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?

Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.

Stiletto, I look at it more as an attitude as opposed to a high-heeled shoe.

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got.

You can never solve a problem on the same level as the problem.

My father was an innovator. He's the first person who sang and set Rumi's poetry into music 35 years, 40 years ago.

I don't care what anyone says.

And thats the way it was and thats the way the cookie crumbles