Heaven deliver us, what's a poet? Something that can't go to bed without making a song about it.

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

For God's sake, let's take the word 'possess' and put a brick round its neck and drown it ... We can't possess one another. We can only give and hazard all we have.

How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do""Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.

She reflected she must be completely besotted with Peter, if his laughter could hallow an aspidistra.

in the linked arms of Bacchus and Aphrodite.

You need to eat normally and healthfully, and you need to exercise. I'm so passionate about this because I think people spend their lives not happy in their bodies.

Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.

I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

My lord. It is too much, and not enough

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

It was necessary, temporarily, to limit certain requirements, accumulate necessary means, strain forces. We acted precisely in this way and built a socialist society.

Live as if this is all there is.

You could just do independent movies, but I like bigger kind of studio movies, at least some of them.

I wanted to tell her that being loved is a talent too, that it takes as much guts and as much work as loving; that some people, for whatever reason, never learn the knack

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