After all, it is we who adapt to the machine. The machine does not adapt to us.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

Only that which can be switched, can be.

Between people long-married there is a diplomacy of the eyes

I know the well of my maternal incompetence is deep but I am determined to siphon up a calm and breathing hope for him.

Hades does not have a runny nose. I know this. The entire Greek pantheon no doubt knows this. For some reason, my nose is unaware of this basic fact of mythology.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

I firmly believe that the future of civilization is absolutely dependent upon finding some way of resolving international differences without resorting to war.

Faith-is the pierless bridge supporting what We see unto the scene that we do not.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.

I don't believe in death. I think it's just a state of mind.