The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Too often we tend to reduce what is strange to what is familiar. I intend to restore the familiar to the strange.

To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been.

Each thing we see hides something else we want to see.

People who look for symbolic meaning fail to grasp the inherent poetry and mystery of the images.

Nothing is confused except the mind.

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing itself, but of thinking of the question that is raised.

The purpose of art is mystery.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well.

When joy is LOST, hope can easily FIND it... It's only your HOPE, that knows the where about of your JOY! If you lose hope you lose everything!

A lot of the world seems to repeat itself

If it's not an absolute YES, it's a NO

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice.

If you don't have your game-face on, you're going to go home either to a hospital or to a casket.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

Sarah Palin is now the guy who hangs out in the high school parking lot, showing off his car, five years after he graduated.

Most poetry is very formal, but when a modern poet is formal he gets more attention for it than old poets did.