It is always hazardous to express what one has to say indirectly and allusively..

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding.

No one actually lives as if there is no objective truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

I always do things before I go on a case and when I leave a case. I even do that when I'm out on the road..

I don't like closed systems..

I don't pull, I just receive..

I never feel like I need to make a song that sells 5 million copies; that's not the point of why I make music. It's great if that happens, like it di….

Nobody acts purely selfishly..

Much is wanting to those who seek or covet much..

There's a point when you go with what you've got. Or you don't go..

Calamus fortior gladio..

You won't be happy anywhere until you're happy somewhere..

L.A.'s always been good to me..

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us..

Being precedes Truth, and ... Truth precedes the Good..

Success is less rare than the courage to attempt it..

I just create, that's what I do..

Always say less than necessary..

We see not our own backs..

You must not inflict life on someone who will be resented..