Nor that he's regarding my face with the same intensity I am his. We're two paintings staring at each other across a room.

When people fall in love, they burst into flames.

People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing.

You have to see the miracles for there to be miracles.

Reality is crushing. The world is a wrong-sized shoe. How can anyone stand it?

I have to go, " I say, helpless.What makes you say the opposite of what every cell in your body wants you to say?

it's okay to be addicted to beauty, " Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.

Mom has a massive sunflower for a soul so big there's hardly any room in her for organs.

The worst thing that could ever happen to Noah has happened. He's become normal.

SELF PORTRAIT: Throwing Armfuls of Air into the Air

And I see that his brown eye has a splash of green in it and the green one a splash of brown. Like Cezanne painted them. Impressionist eyes.

Keep those that influence you for the better close and never give them a reason to keep you far away.

Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

We intend to try and vote the Chinaman out, to frighten him out. And if this won't do it, to kill him out.

When I'm onstage I just want to feel as comfortable as I possibly can.

Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable.

In the US, the problem is primary and secondary education. We've had such an increase in inequality because a quarter of American kids don't finish high school!

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

You can't start at the top.

Government is never so noble as when it is addressing wrongs.