Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

Thanks for not freaking out, " I said."Oh, I'm freaking out, " Paul promised, his eyes wide. "I just think it's awesome!

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

The hardest thing about being famous? Just working I guess. Just work. The famous part's the luxury.

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.

Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.

I won't say we have to win. I won't put that pressure. But we can't lose.

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants.