Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

Pleasure involves respect, and respect starts with words.

I'd spent half of my life crying, the other half refusing to cry

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear witness. To despair. And desperate lives.

I was the last, the sole survivor. The most honorable thing a survivor could do was survive. If you stayed on your feet, stayed alive, you were the winner.

Become your own soulmate. Then you'll always have someone watching your back, and you'll always have someone who loves you.

...his voice was like the cracking of ice on a winter lake, and the words were mocking

Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens us to the beauty inscribing our own humanity.

We do not realise that we are children of eternity. If we did, then success would be no success, and failure would be no failure to us.

Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of: Wherefore, let they voice, Rise like a fountain for me night and day.

My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.

The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.

Yeah, we'll play that. You want fries with that?

When you don't make people accountable, it leads to a superstar mentality where not everyone on the team is important.

The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best.