“Obsessions are the only things that matter.”

“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.”

“To be inspired. That is the thing.
to be possessed; to be bewitched.
To be obsessed. That is the thing.
To be inspired.”

“Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.”

“Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.”

“… there are only two things that really matter in life. Literature and love.”

“The only thing that matters is what you do now, here.”

“We want to follow a dream, yes it's true, but it's one thing to follow a dream and another to follow an obsession…A dream is more pure than obsession. A dream is about pride.”

“The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.”

“I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.”