In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

Poverty was nature surviving in society

Humility and self-restraint is the True Objective of Kenpo

To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

The thing about any character is that you want to be sincere.

We will often do anything to pretend that nothing is on our minds.

It's not quite the same as other kinds of performing, but I love animation. It is just a different kind of experience. The difference is that making a live action movie you are using your whole body.

To be a good editor or a good writer, I think you really need to be a great reader first.

I did see the Soul Train picture. That was interesting. I've heard all the jokes. I had it coming.

When Everton knock it long, they don't knock it long