... there is a skeleton (or death) that flees terrified in the face of my will to live.

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

Passion is the bridge that takes you from pain to change.

I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.

At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.

Can one invent verbs? I want to tell you one: I sky you, so my wings extend so large to love you without measure.

I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.

I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

Sexism and racism are parallel problems. You can compare them in some ways, but they're not at all the same. But they're both symptoms inside the white male power structure.

Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.

May the magic rise in YOU!

We may legitimately see in the [Old Testament] event, or in the record of it, additional levels of significance in the light of the end of the story – i.e. in the light of Christ

Everything we do is about the emotion of the characters. We believe the better the emotion, the better the movie.

Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

When you have been close to death it makes you think about life.

Poetry is a whim of Nature in her lighter moods; it requires nothing but its own madness and, lacking that, it becomes a soundless cymbal, a belfry without a bell.

He who knows what best to omit is the best teacher.

The question of receiving the immigrant is an ethical issue that becomes a political issue.

The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.

The brain works fast when it thinks it’s about to be cut in half.