"Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."

"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

"A poem in form still has to have voice, gesture, a sense of discovery, a metaphoric connection, as any poetry does."

"I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."

"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."

"There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with."