Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

I am ever fascinated by the human experience and by, actually, human beings.

Poetry is the most mistaught subject in any school because we teach poetry by form and not by content.

You must invent your own games and teach us old ones how to play.

Photographers direct the eye toward a particular object. We who write, one hopes, are directing the heart and the soul.

you know a person is having a severe personality crisis if you see a high school class ring on a finger beyond the first semester in college. Male or female. It's a big sign saying nothing has mattered to my life since senior year.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. It's strange that the only time the major press talks about them is when someone gets killed or does drugs or something; yet these are the same press people who made heroes out of the Mafia and other crooks, you know.