We're conduits for the universe's desire to think about itself.

What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple--or a green field--a place to enter, and in which to feel.

Most of life is routine-dull and grubby but routine is the mountain that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.

I wished the president [Barack Obama] were more "Martin Luther King-like."

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

The offender never pardons.

In a place where there are no humans, one must strive to be human.

I don't want to end up losing my soul.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

I do a happy dance even when I get a guest-star role.