Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

While you wait for your dream job, you can engage yourself with the available job.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

If you were to draw Bugs, the easiest way is to learn how to draw a carrot and then hook a rabbit onto it

In LA, too many people want to go the quickest route from A to B. Method acting offers them that.

I'll smoke anything. I won't spend a lot of money on cigars, because I consider that too self indulgent. $3, max, except for special occasions. And yes, I do know the difference.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

You can't get out of life alive.

I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks and I would like to continue that streak.

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.