Poetry must be human. If it is not human, it is not poetry.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Poetry is a succession of questions which the poet constantly poses.

You failed her when you turned your back on what you are.

Measures which serve to abridge the free competition of foreign Articles, have a tendency to occasion an enhancement of prices.

Jokes that make me laugh out loud when I write them almost always bomb. I have no idea why.

I won because of the fact that people that are great, great American people have been forgotten. I call them the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. They've been forgotten.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn't need to lug around a camera.

You cannot further the Brotherhood of Man by encouraging class hatred.

"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."

You know," I said to Michael, "my girlfriend took him down with a broken tree branch." "Too bad she isn't here," he said.

I'll be honest, I worry sometimes about what I've done. I have tied my whole person to my art and, whatever it takes to get that hook, I will go there and do it.

Thankfulness grows best in the seed-bed of conviction, just as some plants must be placed in the soil in the winter if they are to flower in the summer.