Poetry is as necessary to comprehension as science. It is as impossible to live without reverence as it is without joy.

...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.

From our birth we are all dying, but some of us finish sooner than others.

We who were born into privilege and opportunity were given these gifts with an expectation: to give them away.

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

President Obama filled out his March Madness bracket. You can tell Obama's mind is elsewhere because his top two picks were Israel and Iran.

I'm just broadening my craft and stretching my skills a little bit in different directions.

The will to do, the tenacity to overcome all obstacles and to finish the course, the strength to cling to inexorable ideals, are all rooted in courage.

I always feel like it is a privilege to be able to be an artist and to be able to exhibit my work all over the world.

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

Moviemaking is so male-dominated now that they think they’re being pro-feminine when they have women punching each other out.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.