You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

When we first broke into that forbidden box in the other dimension, we knew we had discovered something as surprising and powerful as the New World when Columbus came stumbling onto it.

But I tried, didn't I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

The world news might not be therapeutic.