I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless.

This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.

You must pardon me, gentlemen, for being a most unconscionable time a-dying.

Brother, I am too old to go again to my travels.

Poetry is another name for a person’s telling of the self, existence and what is beyond, and one’s own perceptions.

The truth is, rarely can a response make something better - what makes something better is connection.

How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over two hundred varieties of cheese?

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

For me, the motivation really was to work with Al Pacino. To me, that seemed like an incredible opportunity, just a learning opportunity because I thought so highly of him.

Hollywood is run by men who are big on vulnerability.

God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

I look at subprime lending and I see the American dream in action.

Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.