It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.

We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story.

Love, we are a small pond.

When Sleeping Beauty wakes up, she is almost fifty years old

Everything pays for growing tame.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth.

... people get confidential at midnight.

Cherish your wilderness.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

People read books to escape the uncertainties of life.

I think part of what I love about being an actor is getting to take on different worlds and investigate different genres and travel to different lands.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

Existence is Appetite: the gnaw of being; the one attempt of all things to assimilate to some higher attempt.

We need a game plan to deploy it very quickly to both move the economy forward and create the new businesses and jobs, and address climate change. It's a pretty big task. Pretty challenging.

I plead total ignorance to Led Zeppelin. I am totally in the dark about them.

He [Ernest Hemingway] is gentle, as all real men are gentle; without tenderness, a man is uninteresting.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

Oh, lord. I was beginning to think like Neith. Soon I'd be huddled in an underground bunker eating army rations and cackling as I sewed together the pockets of all the boys who'd jilted me.

The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.