These new theories of the universe, that there are multiple universes just bubbling up constantly - it's all pretty wild.

I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.

The sun does what it does because the earth tilts.

Orwell says somewhere that no one ever writes the real story of their life. The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations.

Society imposes an identity on you because of the way you look. Your struggle as a self has to do with an identity being imposed on you that you know is not your identity.

You probably have to split yourself in various ways just in order to survive, and to think of yourself as a multitude.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

You don't think of yourself as your external representation, or even your national origin or anything like that. You don't reduce yourself to that. That's kind of unthinkable.

I resist thinking of myself as a teacher. I think of myself as a writer who has pulled a fast one and hoodwinked this institution into giving me a job and health insurance.

I think that when you reveal things that are going to cause pain, you have rhetorical resources in poetry.

We all think of ourselves as our subjectivity, our consciousness.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

When I first came to Los Angeles, I was a teacher in Compton. I know how in need schools are around the country.

I'd rather have the influence than the power, and the influence to me is to build institutions of independence and democracy, to regain for Egypt prestige in education and science and technology.

Well, I was a drama kid.

I have sold my soul to the devil.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and God Bless Texas.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Your body is woven from the Light of Heaven.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.