To be a poet means to be awake when others are asleep.

And the thing about a successful life is that a lot of the time, our ideas of what it would mean to live successfully are not our own. They're sucked in from other people; chiefly, if you're a man, your father, and if you're a woman, your mother. Psychoanalysis has been drumming home this message for about 80 years. No one's quite listening hard enough, but I very much believe it's true.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

当人们做不到一些事情的时候，他们就会对你说你也同样不能。

The greatest mysteries are those we create ourselves.

Never give up, never surrender.