Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

The places where water comes together with other water. Those places stand out in my mind like holy places.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange all the furniture.

To be rich, focus on your wealth.

Celebrity nowadays is so fleeting. You really have to have a legitimate talent to back it up.

I never want to hide my wrestling background.

I hope people enjoy what I do. That would make me happy because I'd be bringing others pleasure while doing something I like.

Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance.

I'm 40 years old, and I still love watching Bugs Bunny slap the bull on the nose. I still watch those cartoons, and yet I also enjoy reading books about science, or the current fiction.

Photography is a powerful medium of persuasion and propaganda. It has that ring of truth when all the time, in artful hands, it can make any statement the manipulator chooses.

I have nothing against women. Some of my best wives were women.

The greatness of work is inside man.

In a polite age almost every person becomes a reader, and receives more instruction from the Press than the Pulpit.