Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.

In tragedy every moment is eternity; in comedy, eternity is a moment.

What, after all,is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Poetry is a language in which man explores his own amazement.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

The best Thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in Look as much like home as we can.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair; a narrow escape into faith.

We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.

I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.

Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions but you do not judge or blame yourself.

The miracle centered gospel leads to getting something from nothing.

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

I don't belong to anything, nobody's listening to me and I don't have any levers that control my own life.

People are such idiots. As if there's something wrong with being in love.

Humor tells you where the trouble is.

All artists are illusionists of one kind or another.

Producers don't really publicize movies.

God's greatest agency; man's greatest agency, for defeating the enemy and winning men back is intercession.