If you're just mired in privilege, there's nothing to learn; learning appears to be over.

If you created a place in air where they're breathing and running around in, and then they speak in that fictional milieu, it's perfectly authenticated because the whole world relies on you, who've made it possible.

I think poetry can lead to policy, and I can hear the laughter when I say that.

People seem very comfortable having a kind of Cheesecake Factory-type of life.

Bruce Lee, before he fought, he would try to visualize how the fight would go, because he was visualizing a victorious path out of the combat.

Eliot said that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood." What he meant by that is, the emotional understanding comes before you understand the argument that follows later in the text.

With kids, they force you to get out of bed. They force you to smile. They remind you of spontaneity.