There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

The important thing is not to be too comfortable when you're writing. Noise in the street? That's good. The computer goes down? That's good. All these things are good. It has to be a little bit of a struggle.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.