The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet.

Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.

My responsibility as a poet, as an artist, is to not look away.

Homemade stuffing is my favorite thing about Thanksgiving. I wish people served it more than just once a year.

Usually it takes a bottle of Bacardi and a gallon of Coke to get John out of his seat.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose.

I love to work. I absolutely love to work.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

Yahoo to me, as the founder of a company, is one of the biggest opportunities you could have; it's one of those classic Internet companies.

Luck never built a business. Prosperity and growth come only to the business that systematically finds and exploits its potential.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Don't be dependent on anyone else. I want to go everywhere, look at, and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.