The supreme morality of art is to endure.

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.

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is not equal, but I can't bear environments that make this truth so obvious.

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.

When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.

One of the best hearing aids a man can have is an attentive wife.

Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love.

The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.