"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

"All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure."

"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art."

"Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another."

"Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction."

"Every artist was first an amateur."