Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday.

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

You only become truly rich the day you possess something that money cannot buy.

Why did God make man before he made woman? Because he didn't want any advice on how to do it.

Light may be shed on man and his origins.

On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.

I got turned down for a million jobs until I got my first movie with Francis [Ford Coppola].

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot.

I love festivals because I feel like I'm more of a movie fan than a person who's in the film industry.

There are no unsavable souls.