We are all prisoners of our own experiences, and the key to freedom lies in understanding them.
Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.