How does a pansy, for example, select the ingredients from soil to get the right colors for the flower? Now there's a great miracle. I think there's a supreme power behind all of this. I see it in nature.
What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees
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.
The way to know about championship quality is to learn from champions, and that I did; studying them with professional purpose during my time in the ring and from habitual interest afterward.
The old-time-religion and today's cutting-edge-religion have one thing in common - they're both religion. I want neither.
Like most lit nerds, I'm a voracious reader. I never got enough poetry under my belt growing up but I do read it - some of my favorites, Gina Franco and Angela Shaw and Cornelius Eady and Kevin Young, remind me daily that unless the words sing and dance, what's the use of putting them down on paper.
I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of Lucy and Ricky. Oh, I'm Lucy for sure.