Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
The Lord survives the rainbow of His will.
If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon.
Poetry is not the record of an event: it is an event.
We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.
In the end, there is no end.
The world is absolutely out of control now and is not going to be saved by any reason or unreason.
You can drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, on every continental shelf and atop every hill in America for that matter, and you still won't reverse the fact that our oil production is in permanent decline. We're just sopping up what's left, digging ourselves into a deeper hole.
If a director can find the exact combination between the written word as a guideline and improvisational input from his actors, I think that's where you'll find the most successful work being done.
Your wife is always right. Very simple. I think I'm going to get it tattooed on my forehead.
I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing. . . the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.