I don't think Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump really have friends. But Trump has openly admired Putin for many years, with no reservations. He even seems to idolize him. Neither his cabinet appointees nor the civil servants in the Pentagon and the State Department feel the same way, however, so we don't know what this admiration will bring.
I'm a compulsive enjamber. I'm drawn to half-meanings created by the line, so that's definitely an element of craft that's always on my mind. And I'm a big devotee of the short line, of couplets and tercets, and of irregular stanzas with lots of white space. I've got to give the dense language room to breathe!
I feel like that's how women feel in a way. You can get paranoid because everyone actually is a conspiracy to diminish your power.
I've got two sisters and they're both married and they're both much more settled into the way things are.
I love the idea of fictional worlds kind of all cohering in some way.
Don't worry he tells me tenderly. It doesn't matter who you've been, who you are, or who you become. I'm with you every step of the way.
If God is calling you to do something, do it! You can't run away from God!
Psychologically, you learn the values that are inherent in the dialogue, and you learn to apply it to the way you read the lines. That's acting. You're not yourself saying those lines, you're somebody else.
Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.
I've learned... That I wish I could have told my Mom that I love her one more time before she passed away.
It's funny, because Arrested Development is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of the next things I did was a show called Quintuplets for a season for Fox, and this was while Arrested Development was on. I used to go over and hang out on their set.
I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see.
By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
The freeway is just like veins without a heart.
I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
I have trouble with modern art. But in general, all art forms fascinate me - art is the way human beings express what we can't say in words.
One cannot simply decide to write apolitical poetry, in the way one decides to drink lemonade instead of tea, it's far more subliminal than that.
Working on Shakespeare and learning about Shakespeare was the big takeaway for me.
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.
The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.
It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
We see things the way we are, not the way they are.
So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment of time is preserved or lost or found in mysterious ways. Mystery is a wonderful part of life.
