I was playing catch with the European audience.

I'm sorry, but I was born with a towel on my head.

We're all moving, moving, moving. Isn't it nice?

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

The poem, for me, is simply the first sound realized in the modality of being.

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.

I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.

Fact is based upon vulgar matter.

I hope you're representing the devil's advocate.

You can do anything, literally, right? That's one of the exciting possibilities of the present.

I remember way back when I was young, 10 years ago.

I am happy to have some friends here in the kitchen.

I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

I was playing catch with the European audience.

This morning of the small snow I count the blessings, the leak in the faucet which makes of the sink time, the drop of the water on water.

I sound like Homer. I mean Winslow Homer.

Atlantis will rise again.

We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.

This country has been unconscious, and it's got to awake. That's my belief.

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact.

With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

I don't like the idea of 'trends' at all. If you follow trends, then everybody looks the same. The best shopping experiences are in local markets, especially in foreign cities.

I absolutely love my son and family - they are my life and always come first.

I was always jealous of my violinist friends and cellist friends who traveled with their instruments.

We need to significantly increase the number of bombing runs we're conducting in Iraq and Syria.

We have scaled the heights of Mount Everest, dominated the Southeast Asian games, we have won international beauty titles, and of course punched our way to triumph in the boxing world. Our people compete and win every day in every imaginable job throughout the world.

When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world, we lose connection with one another – and ourselves.

I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.

After I saved some money, I quit work and went to a local college.

I was at a picnic, and there were a lot of songwriters. I remember praying, 'God I wish you would give me a song.' About five minutes later, my ears popped, and I saw everybody in slow motion. Nobody knew what I was experiencing.

You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.

There's an expression in Australia that's called 'Go Bush,' which means to get out of the city and relax. I try and 'go bush' to places where there's no cell reception. But, I don't get to do that often, so for the most part, it's just a state of mind.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

Every religion there's something foul going on.

My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.

I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.

My family knows they are loved. As a mother, it is my job to let them know that they are, and it's a job I take quite seriously.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.

When I went pro at 13, I had plenty of sponsors that give me endorsement deals and stuff like that.