A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.

Reading a poem aloud to an audience is gestural as much as precise.

I've always thought my poems told stories.

I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

A poem can have an impact, but you can't expect an audience to understand all the nuances.

The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.

I'd like to be a wife and mother. I guess I'll know Mr. Right when I meet him.

In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.

If faith is your motivation, share that.

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.

Minimalism means not trying to improve perfection.

Let your Medicine be something of the Nature of the Sign ascending.

Concept is what makes actors raise their game.

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

I love Alfonso Cuaron.

The bottom line, addressing defense spending cuts with a meat ax like sequestration will damage defense readiness for decades to come.

There is just no reason why the richest nation in the world can't provide health care to all its people.

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

When I got to France I realized I didn't know very much about food at all. I'd never had a real cake. I'd had those cakes from cake mixes or the ones that have a lot of baking powder in them. A really good French cake doesn't have anything like that in it - it's all egg power.

There is hardly a person alive who does not want to know 'what happened next,' in any context.

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

I was very skinny, but that was just my natural build. I always ate sensibly - being thin was in my genes.

With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.

Jim and I are still receiving surgical attention, and will be the remainder of our lives.

To me, casting is all about finding a character within the actor off the screen as much as on the screen.

My mother is my friend who shares with me her bread. She cures all my hopelessness Her company makes me feel secure

I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tirupati Balaji and Vaishno Devi every year.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.