We are not as we were. Death has been our pentecost.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

When we move in a direction that touches our heart, we add to the momentum of deeper purpose that makes us feel more alive.

Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.

It's an unfair world, Child. Be glad you have friends.

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

An Immense hatred keeps me alive... i would live for a thousand years if i were certain of seeing the whole world croak.

You just go in and try to do the best job you can everyday.

If I get that thing down there in that area, that's 67% lifetime. If you don't believe me, Google it. I'm on the Internet.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.

If you are going to succeed, you must deal with what caused you to fail