A poem is about something the way a cat is about the house.

The Orphic Machine is the poem: a severed head with face turned away that sings.

Do not be content with an imaginary god.

If not every one of these people, who were never perfect, is worthy of our love, at least their fate deserves our attention and our memory. They should talk and be talked about.

When you're in the editing process, you try different things and you get creative ideas.

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

If it were up to the executives, they probably wouldn't have directors at all.

Highway One, Antarctica is a wonderful debut by a writer with razor-sharp insights to the human condition. Justin Herrmann is a voice I hope to hear more from, and soon. Excellent collection.

It would be a nice problem to have. It would mean we had reached the final. I'd like to think common sense would prevail and we'd have the use of both of them.

Nothing keeps a company honest and efficient like the threat of other companies coming along and taking its business away.

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

Sometimes you should have something you don't need but that you want.

I'm just a mule with blinders on, I can't help myself.