There is a great amount of poetry in unconscious fastidiousness.

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.

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

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.

Sorry, there’s just not enough mead to go around.

It's not simply what we feel, but what we feed, that determines what we do and how we live.

I don't pay attention to what others are doing. I feel strongly that if I have correct goals and the determination to keep pursuing them the best way I know how, everything else falls into line.

The eternal tide flows hid in Living Bread. That with its Heavenly Life too be fed.

Vodafone is building a digital stadium in Istanbul. It is really worth going to see that. The whole experience will change with the possibilities viewers will have.

I send my kids to school not only to learn how to read and write and do math, but also to develop socially.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

Don't ever let anyone shake your faith in yourself, because that's really all that you have.

I always channel my emotions into my work. That way, I don't hurt anyone but myself.

Madness, mayhem, erotic vandalism, devastation of innumerable souls - while we scream and perish, History licks a finger and turns the page.