The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

While I am flattered about the speculation of being enticed out of retirement, I'm happy with life as a bad golfer!

She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

My greatest fear is the Iranians acquire a nuclear weapon and give it to a terrorist organization. And there is a real threat of them doing that.

The hardest thing is that you can't trust people now. You just can't.

We are surrounded by curtains. We only perceive the world behind a curtain of semblance. At the same time, an object needs to be covered in order to be recognized at all.