A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction

It occurs to me that our survival may depend upon our talking to one another.

The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.

Nobody gets beyond a petroleum economy. Not while there's petroleum there.

Seduction... was both a science and art - a blend of skill, discipline, proximity, and opportunity. Mostly proximity.

Poets are the mad midwives to reality. They see not what is, nor what can be, but what must become.

History viewed from the inside is always a dark, digestive mess, far different from the easily recognizable cow viewed from afar by historians.

The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance.

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

When you change the way you think about a situation, everything connected to that situation will change.

I don't like labels necessarily because a label doesn't mean very much. But when it comes to being conservative, I happen to be conservative.

Knowing is the same thing as the inner voice.

Coming to the end of a long shot is brutal so when it's just me, if I mess up I can be like "Sorry. I'm an idiot. Let's go again".

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

How strange and how lovely it is to be anything at all.

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back.

Recalling days of sadness, memories haunt me. Recalling days of happiness, I haunt my memories.