...creative output depends on creative input.

... creative output depends on creative input.

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.

All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, And is lightly laid again.

A good career is a long-lasting career. When you're there in every competition doing a good job you're a part of an elite, and that's the most important thing.

I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.

I see a world in the future in which we understand that all life is related to us and we treat that life with great humility and respect.

It was a universal truth among males that anytime you saw a guy get it in the nuts, you experienced a shot of phantom pain in your own croquet set.

I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write.

But silence never shows itself to so great an advantage, as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them.

I want to make a vending machine that sells vending machines. It'd have to be real big.

My sense of humor will always stand in the way of my seeing myself, my family, my race or my nation as the whole intent of the universe.