To reduce poetry to its reflections of historical events and movements would be like reducing the poet's words to their logical or grammatical connotations.

When a society decays, it is language that is first to become gangrenous. As a result, social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings

My shoulder will never be the same. I expect you to nurse me back to health.

I find that writing is as magical as the genre I write in. When the story comes alive and takes over, it's truly a journey to another world.

Children need your LOVE especially when they don't deserve it

Seize opportunity by the forelock and see where it leads you.

Success is a relative quotient, and fame can be ephemeral. An Oscar is something that becomes a part of your record, a tangible acknowledgement that your efforts have made a difference.

San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

I wasn't the kind of person that liked waiting for autographs or following them, I just liked to go to the shows, study their records, driving many, many hours to different states to go to concerts.

For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya.

If you think about yourself then you've lost sight of the ball.

When your garden is finished I hope it will be more beautiful that you anticipated, require less care than you expected, and have cost only a little more than you had planned.