[Osip] Mandelstam was killed by Stalinist forces.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

The future is the lie with which we justify the brutality of the present.

You’re not the same. You’re not supposed to be the same. You’re supposed to be different. This isn’t something you will ever forget.

True friendship is the best gift in life.

A C.E.O.'s job is leadership, problem solving, and team building. I've done that my whole career.

Standing up for what's right is a huge burden to bear. It's normal to have some doubt.

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

In order to more fully understand this reality, we must take into account other dimensions of a broader reality.

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.