Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.

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.

Do not forget you mother, when she is old.

Sometimes, one needs another pair of eyes to see things clearly.

I am smart because I know I nothing.

Each night I lie and dream about the oneWho kissed me and awakened my desireI spent a single hour with him aloneAnd since that hour, my days are layed with fire.

I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.

In the Atlantean civilization, law existed to create order, that is to say, to see justice was done. In the old way, the law was equal for all, not the strong win and the weak lose.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

As an immigrant, you're constantly thinking about how you're perceived on a community level, and a lot of times it's just on a community level.

Creativity exists more in the searching than in the finding.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.