That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.

The first step... shall be to lose the way.

Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I'm a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.

The kitchen is the most important place in any house. Visit your family, and that's where you'll end up. Go to a party, that's where everyone congregates.

Whoever controls work and wages, controls morals.

The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract.

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

We don't have a business model for health care in this country, We just have a business model for care. The way doctors and hospitals get paid is something bad has got to happen. It's a pure reactive model.

Poe was such a tragic and brilliant figure; he's somebody whom I've been somewhat obsessed with my whole life. I first read 'The Tell-Tale Heart' at age four.

Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

Being a caretaker is, and never will be, an easy job; in fact, it is that hardest job in the world and many times a thankless job. You have to be the pillar of strength even when you feel like you are crumbling to pieces inside.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.

Nice guys finish last.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits - you know, like we just don't give a damn.

I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business.

In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.

Definitely, something is happening out there in Internet world at any given moment, but the likelihood that it's something that can't wait until that evening for you to find out about it is very small.

Unlike Chicago or New York, small-town Minnesota did not allow a man's failings to disappear beneath a veil of numbers. People talked. Secrets did not stay secret.

Too many drummers sit at the back covered in drums, and you never see them.

Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Basically, I hate conformity. I hate people telling me what to do. It makes me want to smash things. So-called normal behaviour patterns make me so bored, I could throw up!

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the risks of inaction.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.