The most prevalent poetic representation of contemporary experience is the mimesis of disorientation by non sequitor.

We would give anything for what we have.

When you're a student of poetry, you're lucky if you don't realize how untalented you are until you get a little better. Otherwise, you would just stop.

What I thought was an end turned out to be a middle. What I thought was a brick wall turned out to be a tunnel. What I thought was an injustice turned out to be a color of the sky.

And I am too knowledgeable now to hurt people imprecisely

Often we ask ourselves to make absolute sense out of what just happens, and in this way, what we are practicing is suffering, which everybody practices, but strangely few of us grow graceful in.

No matter how you feel you have to act like you are very popular with yourself; very relaxed and purposeful very unconfused and not like you are walking through the sunshine singing in chains.

the glory of the protagonist is always paid for by a lot of secondary characters

Until we say the truth, there can be no tenderness.As long as there is desire, we will not be safe

The will of God, to which the law gives expression, is that men should defeat their enemies by loving them.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can't help but slip at times.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

I can't imagine how many first performances I've done, perhaps 500. Some of them have been very good, and some of course very bad.

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

I would rather portray the hero, if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in "The Last of the Mohicans" and "Robin Hood."

We are in truth, more than half what we are by imitation. The great point is to choose good models and to study them with care.

Why does nothing change, even when you set out for a faraway place?