Quote Tag

A lot of truth is said in jest.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Eyes talk better than words sometimes

Music speaks to us on a level that words can’t express.

To take a few nouns, and a few pronouns, and adverbs and adjectives, and put them together, ball them up, and throw them against the wall to make them bounce. That’s what Norman Mailer did. That’s what James Baldwin did, and Joan Didion did, and that’s what I do – that’s what I mean to do.

You can’t really be an artist if you don’t take the trouble to speak about things that matter.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

I write for the same reason I breathe—because I have to.

You can make anything by writing.