As an artist, you have the job of working out whatever is given you to work out.

It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.

Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.

Poetry is a fireplace in summer or a fan in winter.

If you're imaginatively responsible to the place you live in, you understand the watershed.

The birds are silent in the woods. / Just wait: soon enough / You will be quiet too

Imagination runs through the places where we live like water. We need both things-a living knowledge of the land and a live imagination of it and our place in it- if we are going to preserve it.

Repetition makes us feel secure and variation makes us feel free.

Writing is an incessant process of discovery.

Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?

Since we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our minds, it is our duty to furnish it well.

I thank God for His infinite blessings.

Age makes you want to hold everyone you love as close as you can.

Men always want to be remembered whereas women realize that requires being dead.

I entered this career having no background or connection to acting.

Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Another question has been raised rather widely in Europe, in Japan as well as in the United States is what, to what extent will the euro become a reserve currency.

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.