Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

You have to reject one expression of the band first before you get to the next.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.