Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

They fought the enemy, we fight fat living and self-pity. Shine, o shine, unfalsifying sun, on this sick scene.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it

Poetry...... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyesthat can dilate, hair that can rise

Freedom has never been free.

My whole life, I've been telling jokes.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

I certainly think I'll end up writing about America in some form. I've taken plenty of notes. I like America very much.

The freest form of government is only the least objectionable form. The rule of the many by the few we call tyranny: the rule of the few by the many is tyranny also; only of a less intense kind.

In order to improve your game you must study the endgame before everything else.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

The important thing is that you've got to have ideas in the first place. And you need to have the passion to implement them.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.