It's like I get into a roller coaster, and sit there while it goes up and down and upside down and sometimes I get thrown out and I hit my head, but I crawl back in again and the moment I'm back in, i...
Sometimes you have to go a little crazy before you can find sanity. I think I'm close.
If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner.
Don't be timid. You're a writer, use your role, test it, make something of it. These are decisive times, everything is turning upside down. Participate, be present.
There are times when I can't believe how much ridiculous stuff happens to me and how brilliant it is to be in a position to write about it.
It is kind of ridiculous that a poet is expected to live in the real world.
Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.
Last night, I was a mad man searching for a whiff of your fragrance. The stars and the moon even laughed at me.
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
If typos are God's way of keeping a writer humble, plot holes certainly keeps one on their knees.
It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing
It is a long journey, not just as a writer, but as a human being. Take nothing and no one for granted, be humble always, be kind especially when it's difficult and never forget the place where you cam...
Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years.
All the best writers take risks, offend people often and say fuck you to the critics.
I like to make blank pages darker. It's this thing I do.
No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it
The writer has to die to give birth to the intellectual in the service of the wretched of the earth.
In the best interest of profession, a writer should sometimes refrain from writing.