I don't think art is in danger of dissolution or disappearance, and we don't trust enough in its ability and power to create critical consciousness as much as we think we do.

Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist memory shrinks without forgetting

As for the heart It needs a beginning The narrative Burden of events

For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.

Even the art of quoting is a conservative art most of the time, in order to propel the same ideas and the same self-congratulatory importance.

In the Radiation Laboratory we count it a privilege to do everything we can to assist our medical colleagues in the application of these new tools to the problems of human suffering.

If you have to be persuaded about something, you shouldn't do it.

O Lord! take my heart, for I cannot give it; and when Thou hast it, O! keep it, for I cannot keep it for Thee; and save me in spite of myself, for Jesus Christ's sake.

The Lord doesn't put us through this test just to give us a test: He does it because the process will change us.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

Certainly people have a lot tougher situations than I've had to deal with. But I will say we are all dying from the moment we are born. This is not just rehearsal.

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

The trauma of the whole thing has been humbling, and for the first time, I'm a little bit wobbly.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

A guy who treats his mom well, treats his wife well.