Anguish is the universal language

Anguish is the universal language.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward what looks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

At least embarrasement is not an imitation. It is intimacy for beginners.

Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.

While you’re alive there’s no time for minor amazements.

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

Emotion is the best mnemonic device.

Even when I’m in the dark I’m in the dark with you.

Nothing will unfold for us unless we move toward whatlooks to us like nothing: faith is a cascade.

... It's the rareGod who needs less stroking that a rockStar or poetician ...

Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.

I really did sneak into Broadway shows, starting when I was 12.

It takes being an active participant in your life. But you are in the driver's seat, and you can determine the direction you want tomorrow to go in.

I grew up in a big ol' Latin family, so that's all the music we used to play - salsa music. We'd always dance and have fun. You know how families get down, man! We just had fun with it.

I can't stand that - those women in 'Waiting to Exhale' now. I can't stand them. But that's because I'm 53 and not 33. But what they were experiencing at 33, I identified with it.

Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.

Woman, no less than man, can qualify herself for the more onerous occupations of life.