What's a word, a talisman, to hold against the world?

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

All of us have moments in our childhood where we come alive for the first time. And we go back to those moments and think, This is when I became myself.

A good poem is like a bouillon cube. It's concentrated and it nourishes you when you need it.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

Being true to yourself really means being true to all the complexities of the human spirit.

We should always do something that makes us feel like a child again. Keep learning, no matter what it is.

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

Sometimes a word is found so right it trembles at the slightest explanation.

Waiting was sometimes the most proactive thing a person could do.

There's great food everywhere, and even McDonald's uses nice wood now.

I've had a very interesting career. I get to do amazing things and work with amazing people and travel and learn languages - things most people don't get the opportunity to do.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Isn't it nice of the IRS to tell the media where to ambush me before they tell me that the U.S. Attorney is suing me?

Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

Look at me, with my pretty bracelet and tiara... I'm a f****n' princess!

I'm still trying to understand the wearing off high heels at the airport.

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.