I appreciate people who are civil, whether they mean it or not. I think: Be civil. Do not cherish your opinion over my feelings. There's a vanity to candor that isn't really worth it. Be kind.

The ocean is interacting with the surface. There is a possible biosphere that extends from way below the surface to just above the crust.

A play gets on Broadway by fluke. And you don't even start out with that ambition. When I do a play, the intention is just to put it up somewhere.

But you don't have your druthers in life, do you?

The world requires me to re-write its wretched dialogue!

You didn't have to go to the fireworks with him. Or - or let him fondle you.""Fondle?" Raisa raised her eyebrows, "When did I mention fondling?

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

I find it more than a little disingenuous to act as if keeping slaves was something that set Thomas Jefferson apart from all mankind.

Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

I don't know how to say easily what I learned. One thing I can say I learned is how amazing photography could be.

A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.