One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.

Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.

When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man and all that made him will be in that instant gone.

One could not pluck a flower without troubling a star.

Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war.

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human.

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

No cat purrs unless someone is around to listen.

For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.

I'm a very stubborn woman and I'm from a very stubborn family of headstrong women. I have sisters, so the women rule the coop in my house.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

We all have goals and dreams. Say them aloud to yourself; if they don’t sound slightly impossible then they aren’t set high enough.

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

I've always wanted to race cars, ever since I was a young boy, as I think a lot of guys have.

Certainly it is a different world for players nowadays. But it depends on the individual.

Id rather be black than gay because when youre black you dont have to tell your mother.

I think the only reason I wanted to do modeling, really, was because I knew I wasn't ready to act; I knew I didn't have enough life experience, and I knew that doing photo shoots was a way of acting. Playing a character each shoot and being able to just emerge yourself in these awkward experiences - it was amazing.

You take 35 degrees out of 360 degrees and call it a photo. No individual photo explains anything. That's what makes photography such a wonderful and problematic medium.

Global warming is a fact. Now it's up to liberals to make it a reality. Hence there is crucial importance in preventing powerful, greedy free market forces from getting in the way of worsening storms and rising sea levels. The Kyoto Accord is a good first step.

I think it's sexy when women have shapely bodies.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

There was a lot of playing by myself, wearing last year's Halloween costume and wandering around the yard talking to myself - which may account for my fondness for doing different voices.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.

Coming out of Dallas and doing commercial work in Dallas - if you had improv background in Dallas, then you were instantly shot to the top of the list of commercial bookings because they loved improvisers because you could elevate the material.

I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.