As Aristotle said, you have to be an aristocrat or a reactionary to write a good proletarian poem.

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense: The creative act.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover.

There have always been those who, though they see tragedy as the outcome of freedom, will nevertheless judge that tragedy is not too high a price to pay.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

Finding fun things to do in Sacramento is no more a daunting task as we, Sacramato4Kids, list all the exciting, upcoming events along with the details.

The only thing they'll let you shoot with a camera.

And as a nurse, I know very well the importance, for example, of electronic medical records.

Maybe there are people who are gamers who haven't seen movies I have made, or the movies I have made have made no impression on them at all.

I thought it was real. But by morning, all I had left were fragmented pieces, shifting images with no beginning or end.

Life does often get in the way of one's reading.

I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

The typical American voter is so stupid, his dog teaches him tricks.

I wanted to make a body of work that looked at what it felt like to be a boy going through adolescence.

He blames Neptune unjustly who twice suffers shipwreck.