Young, healthy communities can afford to roll the dice.

A storyteller, a displaced poet, will absorb reading differently.

The towering genius is not apolitical.

He might not take their advice, but he took their temperature.

Lincoln was a master of small group theatrics.

To use the past, he had to save it from aspects of itself.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

God produced great writing, a matter of first importance to a man like Lincoln, ever impressed with the nature of cause and forces.

She became at once more intimate and more exalted.

Lincoln bore down or anything he handled, mastering both the details and the principles.

And they were quiet but their blood and nerves and butterflies were not—they were rampantly alive, rushing and thrumming in a wild and perfect melody, matched note for note.

Success and failure come and go, but don't let them define you. It's who you are that matters.

I never had a childhood. Not like the rest of them anyway. I had a starting point from which I have never stopped running.

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

Until we become clear about our own worth and value, we will forever be searching for it in the eyes of others.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

I mean, that is a mop of real hair. He has hair like a 15-year-old ... and so, I have to acknowledge I am a little envious of his hair.

Actually, we didn't tour that much back in the 70s because we had all these other artists under our hat. My touring was really limited. I tour more now than I did back then.

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

I directed an early episode of 'Supernatural' the first season called 'Skin.'