The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

I am out with lanterns, looking for myself.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

If you take care of the small things, the big things take care of themselves. You can gain more control over your life by paying closer attention to the little things.

I must go in, the fog is rising.

A good roommate may be the single most important thing to have when one is away at school.

Bring me the sunset in a cup.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

I don't really believe in dialogue; I am too Nietzschean for that. We need to have a warrior conception of philosophy.

I'd like to work with any actress from whom I can learn-one who has had many experiences with many directors and is willing to share some of her knowledge with me.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.

My intention is not to repudiate an African American identity but perhaps to resist how labels take hold, or to make it as slow a process as possible. That's more my sense of it.

Sometimes, as in an athletic event where everything clicks, inexplicable things do happen. Learning and practicing an art or a skill has always been part of the success of the goal.

I worked on a case in Pittsburgh that you would call a demonic haunting. Blood would materialize on the walls, crosses were bending, we'd hear sounds. Just crazy things.