A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

When it came to life or death, or anything else important, the only one you could count on was yourself.

Never leave a situation unless you know what you needed and what you were never going to get.

knowing deep inside some ghosts are too cruel to question

Do you think I'm pretty?”He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful.”"Beautiful?”"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes.

The world becomes so much larger the smaller you live.

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

People don't respond just because you are fighting for the truth. They take their interests into account.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I would no more teach children military training than teach them arson, robbery, or assassination.

A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.