In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

The only thing for what you are bound is to be in your limit.

On the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day.

We will have a peace dividend to spend on rebuilding America, beginning with our American inner cities. We're going to rebuild them, for once and for all.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

It's cinematographic to smoke. Imagine Lauren Bacall without a cigarette.

a steady diet of mass culture is a form of deprivation.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

It is no longer enough to point out what we don't like, we have to work out 'What sort of society do we want?

You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.