A great poet is a most unhappy being.
"You don’t need to walk the path that others have walked. You don’t need to suffer the same scars."
In economics, small changes in rules can lead to large changes in outcomes.
To be a writer is to be a watcher, a listener, a recorder.
On morals: "The one thing that offends me the most is when I walk by a bank and see ads trying to convince people to take out second mortgages on their home so they can go on vacation. That's approaching evil."