If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding.
Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
There are no ordinary feelings. Just as there are no ordinary spring days or kicked over cans of paint.
Just because you’ve had enough doesn’t mean you wanted too much.
Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.
Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal. No one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in general please them in you.
The world has no circumference. It would certainly have a circumference if it had a centre, in which case it would contain within itself its own beginning and end; and that would mean that there was some other thing which imposed a limit to the world - another being existing in space outside the world. All of these conclusions are false. Since, then, the world cannot be enclosed within a material circumference and centre, it is unintelligible without God as its centre and circumference.
Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.
I think most of the work of songwriting is thinking of great phrases - I'm addicted, always on the hunt for a really great phrase.