Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

I tended to emphasize the secular, the casual, the colloquial, the vernacular against the sacred.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

Let your children uplift your burdens and allow your role as a mother - to flourish and grow.

Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.

The destiny of every human being is decided by what goes on inside his skull when confronted by what goes on outside his skull.

In the beginning what is necessary is to feel that there is something worthwhile to be attained otherwise we won't do it.

I wondered where he was now whether I would ever hear him again. Whether someone would love him, someday show him what beauty mean't.

Who would I be, if other good souls did not make up for my shortcomings?

The soul of God is poured into the world through the thoughts of men.

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong, and has increased more than 75 percent in the last decade.

Excuse me," she said politely. "But you can't have him. Not yet. He's going to come back with me.