You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swimÂ…
I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
I’ve become very successful over the years. I think I own among the greatest properties in the world.
The Pope! How many divisions has he got?
Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
If misery loves company, misery has company enough.
A hundred and thirteen is a lot of tests. It’s approaching the amount that you’d ask your doctor for the morning after you woke up from a one-night stand with Colin Farrell.
One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.
The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
A friend of mine had this great theory about the “Teletubbies”, that it’s preparing us for being mindless. And getting us ready for living in an underground world. When they build the underground world because we can no longer breathe the air that it will look like Teletubbie land.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
Truth isn’t truth.
How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it.
Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we’re also innovators, we’re also inventors, we’re also thoughtful.
Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.
