"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."

"You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget."

"The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to."

"Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits."

"Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one."

"Leadership is not a title, it is the realization that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"A mindful spirit recognizes that the silence between the notes creates the music."

"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"