Making is the mirror in which we see ourselves.

But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.

We fill pre-existing forms and when we fill them we change them and are changed.

Insanity is the insistence on meaning.

We live in a hell of opinions.

Once you reach what is / inside it is outside.

Earth you know is round but seems flat. // You can't trust / your senses.

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

Play, and escaping the ideology one grew up in, is freedom.

Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a processCarved in space, vision your poor eye's singlearmor against winter spring summer fall

drugged to sleep by repetition of the diurnalround, the monotonous sorrow of the finite, within       I am awakerepairing in dirt the frayed immaculate threadforced by being to watch the birth of suns

feeling means your dealing means your healing

Some men are born to be good some born to be badAs for me I only came with just a pen ‘n’ a pad.

Memories are nice, but dreams are better.

Because there'd be two languages I couldn't speak, French and English.

I love you; I love you and I don’t care that you’re my sister; don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me. I don’t know how to be without you.

We must not sit down and wait for miracles. Up and be going!

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Every cleric must obey the Pope, even if he commands what is evil; for no one may judge the Pope.

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.