The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.