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.

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.

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

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

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.

The clothes that I design and everything I've done is about life and how people live and how they want to live and how they dream they'll live. That's what I do.

But Aristotle's philosophy was the intellect's Declaration of Independence.

We compete, not so much against an opponent, but against ourselves. The real test is this: Did I make my best effort on every play?

Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

She looks like a china doll, observed Grandfather as we departed. I will break just as easily, I muttered.

You either have to be first, best, or different.

If Ryan Giggs is worth £20 million, Dennis Bergkamp is worth £100 million

I have impeached myself by resigning.

You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.