If we can't have a serious conversation without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble.
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does.
Being a poet is one of the unhealthier jobs--no regular hours, so many temptations!
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper - just running down the edges of different countries and continents, 'looking for something'.
If after I read a poem the world looks like that poem for 24 hours or so I'm sure it's a good one—and the same goes for paintings.
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Democracy in the contemporary world demands, among other things, an educated and informed people.
Peace congresses often start by dealing with some of the less important questions in excessive detail, so at the end there is no time to discuss the most important problems.
I have control over every single frame on Blu-ray. If I want a scene bluer, I get that scene bluer. Originally, there was some fluctuation with the prints. If you made a thousand, or a few thousand prints, there is no control over any of that. But now I can make a master using the digital process.
The reason we feel hurt and anger when things and people outside us let us down is because we believe those things and people shouldn't. Well, sorry, that's not life here on earth.
I hate having to pose for photos. It's just so embarrassing. Everyone is expecting you to know what to do because you're an actor, but I haven't a clue.