Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.

Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely the heart that conceived it sought Heart's ease.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

Today will die tomorrow.

Blossom by blossom the spring begins.

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget.

The tadpole poet will never grow into anything bigger than a frog.

A little soul scarce fledged for earth Takes wing with heaven again for goal, Even while we hailed as fresh from birth A little soul.

When the hounds of Spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

I may not be able to help you as much as I want, but I promise I will help you as much as I can.

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

How science dwindles, and how volumes swell, How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun!

I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors.

I've not met one person, even if they are not creative, who isn't dysfunctional. I guess artists are just a bit more aware of their dysfunction because it serves a purpose.

I'm always slightly envious of people who become extremely rich without anyone knowing who the hell they are, like financiers.

How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the unreined ambition.

A United States collapse would be much different than a Greece collapse. Greece can collapse, and there's a ripple. We collapse, and the world feels it.

We can then offer the universe the gift of our grateful hearts.