If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.

Each delicately and fiercely imaged poem is a tribute to perseverence and survival and a lesson for us all.

Either war is obsolete or men are.

Accomplishment begins with two words: 'I'll try.'

It Girl' is such a weird term. It implies I go to parties and drink champagne.

I need to be able to face things.

The ear is a less trustworthy witness than the eye.

An actor can play two or three lines where he says one thing, but plays the opposite. That's the most important moving part of a film.

Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

Nothing quite new is perfect.

Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.