What's the use in being different when it's being different that's the same.
If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers
You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer.
The idea of being a character who is kind of isolated, I can relate to that.
I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'
When my friends and I played cowboys and Indians, I was always the Chinese railroad worker.
We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.
She keeps on hoping from a word from Penelope, but not in any strenuous way. She hopes as people who know better hope for undeserved blessings, spontaneous remissions, things of that sort.
I like being absurd. Being silly.
When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head,. . . I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.