The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

New Orleans, city of roaches, city of decay, city of our family, and of happy, happy people.

'Evil Dead 1' was never supposed to have a sequel.

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

You have to treat your employees like customers

Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

I love playing characters who are opposite of who I am.

Most of the cruelty in the world is just misplaced energy.