And Quotes
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?
If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.
I take my time because I love how it feels to carry her, the way she needs me, the way I need to protect her.
Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.
Nothing is wrong with peace and love. It is all the more regrettable that so many of Christ's followers seem to disagree.
I've been in some beautiful places, but the prettiest sight is flying back to New Orleans. Being able to look down and say, 'I know where I am now.'
If others hurl their darts against you, offer them milk and honey in return; if they poison your lives, sweeten their souls.
I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
... Once I start a book I finish it. That was the way one was brought up. Books, bread and butter, mashed potato - one finishes what's on one's plate. That's always been my philosophy.
To be a fashion critic is easy because you just say, 'I love it, I hate it,' but life is more than love and hate.
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan
I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.
I think the gap between rich and poor is an extremely dangerous phenomenon and needs the immediate attention of the state.
Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.
I think the things that I enjoy most about directing theater, or works that are really visceral in terms of comedy and have a sort of rock and roll aesthetic.
Everyone would tell me they couldn't identify with sexual abuse. No one says they can't identify with the tales of the Greek gods and goddesses because they don't live on Mt. Olympus.
I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully.
I would have worked no matter what. I was born and raised that way. It occurred to me to be married second.
Life is easier in black and white. It's the ambiguity of a world defined in grays that has stripped me of my confidence and left me powerless.
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.
Our job is not to worship history and culture like fetishes, but to feed them into our living, creative stream of personal life for spiritual and intellectual reprocessing.
India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer.
One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.
I do disapprove of the modern attitude that you can't do the simplest thing, like dying or being born, in your own house.
