For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and ordinary.

When an idea is important to a person or culture it will find its way into imagery.

People forget facts, but they remember stories.

If there were already a path, it would have to be someone else's; the whole point is to find your own way.

I always tell my students, go where your body and soul want to go. When you have the feeling, then stay with it, and don't let anyone throw you off.

Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.

So that's what destiny is: simply the fulfillment of the potentialites of the energies in your own system.