My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Every kind of knowledge, every science, is as a tree: if the fruit of it be the love of God, then is it a blessed tree, but if not, that tree is but dried-up wood, and shall only feed the fire

Chihuahua. There's a waste of dog food. Looks like a dog that is still far away.

The will for deed I doe accept.

Rampaging horsemen can conquer; only the city can civilize.

The modern essay has regained a good deal of its literary status in our time, much to the credit of Joseph Epstein.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.

I have my moods, but I can always see something beautiful.

We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle.

A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.