A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.

We sit and talk, quietly, with long lapses of silenceand I am aware of the streamthat has no language, coursingbeneath the quiet heaven ofyour eyeswhich has no speech

You lethargic, waiting upon me, waiting for the fire and Iattendant upon you, shaken by your beautyShaken by your beauty Shaken.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I live in an apartment building built in 1925, and it hasn't been heavily renovated, so I feel very much connected to that time and what went on in that place.

We can't allow racism and xenophobia to gain traction.

You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art-sculpture or painting-forces your eye.

I missed all of the 2010 season due to Tommy John surgery.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

We didn't used to be so precious about women in comedy back in the old days.

The Christian life is not limited to prayer, but requires an ongoing dedication and courage born of prayer.

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.