If truth is the lure, humans are fishes.

You may do this, I tell you, it is permitted. Begin again the story of your life.

The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.

Zen pretty much comes down to three things -- everything changes; everything is connected; pay attention.

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.

How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.

Existence itself is nothing if not an amazement. Good poems restore amazement.

Something looks back from the trees, and knows me for who I am.

In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

I got my first flash of titties from a Venezuelan hooker.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

The policemen or soldiers are only a gun in the establishments hand. They make the racist secure in his racism.

I think it's like everything you do is just a reflection of who you are as an artist.

The boldness of endurance is the underline to almost every success.

Once there are more African Americans and Asian Americans behind the scenes as producers, writers, and directors, I think more inclusive casting will happen.

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.

Hail to the Chief who in triumph advances!