"Creation, like destruction, always seems to get a little out of hand; otherwise it could hardly be called creative."

“If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.”

“If both sides reduced their long-range missiles by 50%, SDI would be an unacceptable threat to the remaining Soviet rocket forces.”

Source : "A No-Frills Summit". "TIME" Magazine, November 9, 1987.

“If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.”

“I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.”

“Even a graphomaniac is an extremely complicated person.”

“It saddens me that educated people don't even know that my subject exists.”

“People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather than how famous you are.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place.”