It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Never accept a drink from a urologist.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

Don't send me flowers when I'm dead. If you like me, send them while I'm alive.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain.

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 must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.