For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.

Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

I don't like to shoot too many movies since I like to do them well.

I was raised in cities but I was raised in Texas, so there's a certain amount of connection to the earth.

True it is that covetousness is rich, modesty starves.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

I'm fundamentally a busy person; I spend my time doing useful things and profoundly useless things!

I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.