Michael Jackson changed the world and, more personally, my life forever.

It's amazing how close you are to your essential self as a kid, he thought, and how far from it you drift the more you strive to be loved.

Anyone who can see will see you beautiful.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

Americans used to be able to depend on their jobs to provide a stable retirement.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

It is clear that we do not exactly choose our poems; our poems choose us.

We live in a world that pays attention to speed, volume, and flash. Subtlety has its own power in relation to that.

Apparently, they believe they're gods.

Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency, security, happiness, all, to get the book written.