The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to.

The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never thought to recall.

if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Agony without genius was gaucherie.

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world.

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts.

I always say that one's poetry is a solace to oneself and a nuisance to one's friends.

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk.

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.

I don't think anybody whose ever been divorced can tell you divorce is easy or fun or feels like anything other than a tremendous failure.

Observe with both friend and foe the ordinary rules of courtesy.

Our intent will not be to create gridlock. Oh, except maybe from time to time.

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

The way I paint, the scale of the information in the images which I want to paint demand space.

A woman's hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: See this is what I am like-or this is what I would like to be.

When you compete with Wal-Mart, even if you think you've found a niche don't ever become complacent.

As a parent, I don't really want my child to know about all this horrible violence that people seem to be wanting to tell them every time they go to buy some candy.

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.

The only thing I oppose is persecuting of Eastern Orthodox priests and temples.