Any teacher can study books, but books do not necessarily bring wisdom, nor that human insight essential to consummate teaching skills.

... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.

experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience

To me, it’s encounters that matter, pictures are much less important.

No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

I'm a big music fan, an admirer. But I mean by no means am I about to release an album or anything.

We only need to open our eyes to see the gifts that abound all around us. These are the simple joys in life.

The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.

I can be a little bit stubborn.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

I have been doing voice work my entire life, and I adore it. It is really rewarding stuff.

In place of the dream, the future will put art on a scientific and technical basis.