To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

All is mine but nothing owned, nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.

You just have to keep on doing what you do. It's the lesson I get from my husband; he just says, Keep going. Start by starting.

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Freedom is from within.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

Of all the things I`ve lost I miss my mind the most.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

It is wonderful when you don't have the fear, and a lot of the time I don't ... I focus on what needs to be done instead.