Memory is each man's poet-in-residence.

The universe is a continuous web. Touch it at any point and the whole web quivers.

I can hardly wait for tomorrow, it means a new life for me each and every day.

Be what you are. Give What is yours to give. Have Style. Dare.

We have to learn how to live with our frailties. The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed.

The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

You must be careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.

I have walked through many lives, some of them my own, and I am not who I was, though some principle of being abides, from which I struggle not to stray.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

The poem in the head is always perfect. Resistance begins when you try to convert it into language.

Deftly they opened the brain of a child, and it was full of flying dreams.

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

I like Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist.

Alexander Gonzalez Inarritu is a great director. He's the one I first worked with. He's amazing.

Many writers profess great exactness in punctuation who never yet made a point.

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough.

Hosting a show, even a talk show or a game show, there's so much business you have to conduct. There's so much guiding you have to do.

The history of mankind is a perennial tragedy; for the highest ideals which the individual may project are ideals which he can never realize in social and collective terms.

Every cradle asks us, Whence? and every coffin, Whither? The poor barbarian, weeping above his dead, can answer these questions as intelligently as the robed priest of the most authentic creed.

A fierce literary woman with a penchant for married men, Margaret Fuller was ultimately torn between motherhood and her final career as a political reporter.

I'm incredibly spiritual. There are like tens of thousands of denominations; I don't fit in any one of those denominations comfortably. But I have a very personal relationship with God.