The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

I'm happy to report that my inner child is still ageless.

If bitterness wants to get into the act, I offer it a cookie or a gumdrop.

True delicacy is not a fragile thing.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

At every crossroad, be prepared to bump into wonder.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

Follow your own weird.

God bless humankind.

99% of natural poets discovered their talents through love letters.

Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.

The majority of teenagers don't even make eye contact with people, even people of the same age.

I don't believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

The audiences are really different in general. Even in the same country or in the same city, from one venue to another, the audiences can be totally different.

Our goal is to figure out a therapy for prion diseases.

Be careful not to compromise what you want most for what you want now.