But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

The old gods will bring about vengeance not so much because they exist but because I once honored them.

The contest is not over, the strife is not ended. It has only entered on a new and enlarged arena.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

I feel like I barely survived Django (Unchained) emotionally - the violence, hearing the N-word every day. It cost me a lot psychologically, but it was worth it to tell that story.

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

I've always wanted to be aware of what's going on around me, and I've wanted to use photography as an instrument of research into and reporting on the life of my own time.

It is vain philosophy that supposes more causes than are exactly adequate to explain the phenomena of things.

Our ancestors are an ever widening circle of hope.