If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

You can draw inspiration from anything. If you’re a good storyteller, you can take a dirty look somebody gives you, or if a guy you used to have flirtations with starts dating a new girl, or somebody you’re casually talking to says something that makes you so mad – you can create an entire scenario around that.

You cannot be creative with people around you.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

When I’m 40 and nobody wants to see me in a sparkly dress anymore, I’ll be like: ‚Cool, I’ll just go in the studio and write songs for kids.‘

All of my writing is God-given.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again.

I like not fair terms and a villain’s mind.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

There are some people, you know, they think the way to be a big man is to shout and stomp and raise hell-and then nothing ever really happens. I’m not like that I never shoot blanks.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I’ve written some great things. That’s a gift, but there’s consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

All my stories are like the Greek and Roman myths, and the Egyptian myths, and the Old and New Testament.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

I’m entirely interested in people, and also other creatures and beings, but especially in people, and I tend to read them by emotional field more than anything. So I have a special interest in what they’re thinking and who they are and who’s hiding behind those eyes and how did he get there, and what’s the story, really?

Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn’t write, I would stop breathing.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

I woke up one day and thought: ‚I want to write a book about the history of my body.‘ I could justify talking about my mother because it was in her body that my body began.

My music definitely comes from a place of experience. Everything connects to a truth.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

When I did have some success, it further emboldens you to be like, ‚No, I’m just going to write what I feel I should write.‘

It seemed like a very small possibility for me to become an artist. I didn’t have the need to be on the stage; I didn’t feel the need to be heard. I just needed to write.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

I draw from the crowd a lot.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

In cricket, my superhero is Sachin Tendulkar. He has always been my hero and will continue to remain so. Apart from him and outside cricket, my mother has remained my inspiration. Whatever difficult time I had faced, she was always there for me. She has given me all the strength. She maintained her composure and supported me in tough times.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

In constructing the plot and working it out with the proper diction, the poet should place the scene, as far as possible, before his eyes. In this way, seeing everything with the utmost vividness, as if he were a spectator of the action, he will discover what is in keeping with it, and be most unlikely to overlook inconsistencies.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

It was patriotism, not communism, that inspired me.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

My entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty, in a way, was the first inspiration of my life, a commitment to do something for the poor.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that I was going to end up writing briefs for about ten years for these fellows who I thought I was smarter than. And I was kind of losing my feeling for that.

Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You’d be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.

We represent a hustler. I think we represent inspiration. I think we represent, you know, staying down. I think we represent building yourself up from the bootstraps.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

Man becomes his most creative during war.

When you’re around me and really see that all I do is live and breathe for my work, it’s not strange, it’s just Gaga.