I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.

When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree.

[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).

The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me.

To fully encapsulate my creativity, I read to inhale, write to exhale. The whole process helps me breathe story.

It is your gifting and talents that dictates to you what to do.

Be brave to chase your dreams.

Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

With vision there is no room to be frightened. No reason for intimidation. It's time to march forward! Let's be confident and positive!

I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

Man, the molecule of society, is the subject of social science.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

In Afghanistan I was doing street art because it was more open, but when I had a show, only men would come. I said, I'm an artist not only for men, but for women too. So that's why I like graffiti.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.