Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. Even your super weirdo creep cousin.

The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything.

All the literati keep at least one imaginary friend.

I am quite prepared to die here [in NY]. It doesn't matter at all. I don't know better places, or perhaps if I do I am not prepared to make a move.

At certain periods of history it is only poetry that is capable of dealing with reality by condensing it into something graspable, something that otherwise wouldn't be retained by the mind.

Literature sort of makes your daily operation, your daily conduct, the management of your affairs in the society a bit more complex. And it puts what you do in perspective, and people don't like to see themselves or their activities in perspective. They don't feel quite comfortable with that. Nobody wants to acknowledge the insignificance of his life, and that is very often the net result of reading a poem.

On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound.