I keep coming back to certain books, and you—to try to find myself again

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

Never throw the first punch. If you have to throw the second, try to make sure they don't get up for a third.

America stood at the summit of power, emerging from the Cold War as an economic, cultural and military force without equal.

For some directors, I'm the actor from hell.

It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.

It was a dream, and in dreams you have no choices: either there are no decisions to be made, or they were made for you long before ever the dream began.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players.

I will dance and frolic with my Fronkeys from here to eternity.

To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano.

The life of a character doesn't just exist between action and cut.