The responsibility to nightmare is to wake up.

A friend told me he'd risen above jazz. I leave him there.

A woman who'd lost her first son consoled us with an angel gone ahead to pray for our family-- gone into that sky seeking oxygen, gone into autopsy

I have a great fear for the moral will of Americans if it takes more than a week to achieve the results.

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence.

You can control the visibility of my name and my popularity, but you cannot control the frequency at which people are quoting me. Truth always rises with time.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

It is perfectly possible to be a professional director or a professional writer and not to be an artist: merely a sort of executor of other people's ideas.

It's not like you get up on stage and you're immediately a genius. It takes a long time. So, don't be discouraged.

The opening to reality, as it really is, is beauty.

We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be.

It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.

The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think.