He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

Literature, art, like civilization itself, are only accidents.

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

Live with purpose.

It is a wonderful gift for the man to be welcomed by the woman.

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

Every day is a new sense of tearing my heart out of my body again when I see other children who have been killed, and I know what their families are going through.

The future of dance will always be tied up with the public's acceptance of the star. If they accept the star, then they'll accept the dance.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

Sarah Palin is a compelling political figure.

I have six times as many Twitter followers as all the other candidates combined, but it didn't count because if it counted I'd still be a candidate; since I can't be a candidate that can't count.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.