Energetic, inventive, swaggering fun, Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds is a consummate Hollywood entertainment--rich in fantasy and blithely amoral.

I've always been a morning person, and what I don't get done in the morning I really don't get done at all.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I don't think anything is as magical as a fairy tale experience by a child.

A poem really does recreate the language, and that's what it has to do. A true poem, I think, has to give you that shiver. That, "yes, it's never been said quite that way before."

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

I love to be read to, I love to read aloud and I love to read to children.

I always hesitate to call myself a children's poet, and I always hesitate to call what I write for children poetry. Though a few of the verses that I've written, yes, I think they are truly poems.

Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.

I didn't want to be different, even among the different.

Cowards never dare to love.

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

By staying neutral, I end up being somebody that everybody can trust. Even if they don't always agree with my decisions, they know I'm not working against them.

Having no new companions, nothing remained for him but to read.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

It is because the spirit is inestimable, that the lifeless body is so little valued.

One accident or terrorist strike involving high-level waste would endanger lives and cause a catastrophe that would leave millions of dollars in damages and take years to clean up