Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

There is such a shelter in each other.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

Reading is a powerful force that illuminates the darkness. Unfortunately, few have the courage to walk against the world in search of knowledge that transforms reality.

A cat may look at a king.

There is a time when we must firmly choose the course we will follow or the relentless drift of events will make the decision for us.

An arts education helps build academic skills and increase academic performance, while also providing alternative opportunities to reward the skills of children who learn differently.

I play guys who never smile, and I never stop smiling.

For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.

Remember, if you don't promote yourself, then no one else will! Likewise, believe in yourself--or no one else will either.

Now is now. Are you going to be here or not?

I realized that anyone who dared to hurt me would suffer his full wrath, and Walt wasn’t going to hold him back.

Never blame what you are on what someone else is.