"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."

“It would be nice if all the Republicans could put poetry in a little box and put the box under the bed and sit on it, but they can't.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

“Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have increasing trouble getting them. ... Gun control is in effect a subsidy for criminals.”

“I love dabbling in different genres, and I like being good at different genres of cinema.”

“Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.”

Source : "Sämtliche Werken". Book edited by Josef Nadle. Volume 3, p. 286, 1949 - 1957.

“Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.”

“Why are all these refugees rushing to the beauty and strength of Europe and to the United States and not rushing to their own capitals or the capitals of the Muslim world? We ought to be pushing back. We ought to be putting people back on these boats and putting them back into the places where they came from and telling these leaders in the Arab world, "You have a responsibility as well."”

“I think we are living in pretty scary times and people are looking for inspiration and are also more open to the spiritual possibilities.”

“There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.”