Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

In this difficult era the most valuable commodity is the unfailing turn of the hours and how they retrieve for us the known harbor of yesterday.

Don’t sanctuaries become prisons, and vice versa, foremost in the mind?

Imagination might not be limitless. It's still tethered to the universe of what we know.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

Does any (MFA) program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?

It was a kiss meant to set her ablaze. And as always, it worked.

To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

If you are worrying about reputation, you are taking time away from doing the things that really matter.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Take clear water with grass waving at the bottom. It's wonderful to look at, but to try to paint it is enough to make one insane.

When a promise is broken, the promise still remains. In one way or another, we are all unfaithful to each other, and physical unfaithfulness is not the worst kind there is.

Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.

I always feel bad laughing at people who act crazy. But sometimes the things they do are so damned funny. I wonder what I'd look like if I slipped a few notches on the mental-health index.

I think I've got the best staff in television.

I'm a heterosexual. I don't know why I'm like this. I was just born this way.