Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.

We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes.

When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of various celebrities. They are bigger than King Kong, and more frightening.

Life is a mystery. Life is uncertain. It makes one feel a bit wobbly to realize that.

Thinking about quantum physics is like unraveling your brain and putting it back together again upside down. Much like studying Kabbalah.

I am always in awe of people who devote their lives to a good cause and are brave enough to take a stance, though it may be controversial in their time.

I am neither the mind not the thought, I am its Creator.

Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.

The great delusion of men everywhere, that their disregard for other people makes them interesting

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

In most poetic expressions of patriotism, it is impossible to distinguish what is one of the greatest human virtues from the worst human vice, collective egotism.

The anger and the creativity are so closely intertwined with me, and there's plenty of anger left.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Do poets have any insight into what's the right ratio? I doubt it, but I think that they can be awake to what the ends are.

Suffering has as much right to be expressed as a martyr has to cry out. So it may have been false to say that writing poetry after Auschwitz is impossible.