What can be sustained and repeated without emptying out?

The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.

It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

An artist may sustain a body of work as an ecosystem, in which every part is used to every advantage, not consuming any part without regenerating it.

In Banff, the mountains are really close to your head.

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

Innocence is thought charming because it offers delightful possibilities for exploitation.

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

I love Germany so much that I preferred when there were two.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

We love your adherence to democratic principles.