I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism -- that some new drug, or the next election or the latest in social engineering will solve everything.

The lack of a sense of history is the damnation of the modern world.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

Maybe a man has to sell his soul to get the power to do good.

The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.

Historical sense and poetic sense should not, in the end, be contradictory, for if poetry is the little myth we make, history is the big myth we live, and in our living, constantly remake.

Goodness . . . You got to make it out of badness . . . Because there isn't anything else to make it out of.

The poem . . . is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see-it is, rather, a light by which we may see-and what we see is life.

It is human defect — to try to know oneself by the self of another.

You have to make the good out of the bad because that is all you have got to make it out of.

If you look at a thing, the very fact of your looking changes it...if you think about yourself, that very fact changes you.

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!

Life was never easy, but I always made it as easy as it can be.

The Lord sends rain due season.

I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.

Success isn't determined by how many times you win, but by how you play the week after you lose.

Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.