The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

Camels are snobbish and sheep, unintelligent; water buffaloes, neurasthenic-- even murderous. Reindeer seem over-serious.

Omissions are not accidents.

The hands are the heart's messengers.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

Reading a piece of poetry with no beat in front of 20 people is way more challenging than rocking for 10, 000 people.

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

There is a water soluble sugar that is in beans called oligosaccharides and they are indigestible by human beings. They ferment during the digestion process and hence you have gas.

When someone says something in an interview, the beauty of Twitter is that it's a platform for instantaneous response.

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.

You managed to get him a duster, but you couldn't find me a pair of jeans?

I've recently started composting in my apartment, which is quite an adventure.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.