Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas th….

The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me..

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it..

The rooms I tend to be in are pretty democratic and the best idea wins..

The spark of true poetry flashes when ideas are juxtaposed that no one has yet thought of bringing together..

When people ask you to do stuff, it's not your idea anymore, so it's tough to get behind it..

A person can have the greatest idea in the world - completely different and novel - but if that person can't convince enough other people, it doesn't….

Let’s not forget that American democracy started with ‘We the People’ agreeing to work hard to create ‘a more perfect union.’ We’ve lost the idea tha….

None are so fallible as those who are sure they're right..

For me it is a matter of respect for the ideas in the work and the people who look at them. I absolutely hate it when works come back to the studio f….

I think that secular liberals need to recognize that they are still, often, hanging their worldview on what are metaphysical ideas..

Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas..

Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result..

The idea of let's all share the pain equally, or let's freeze salaries altogether - it's ass-backwards. It's absolutely ass-backwards..

I was heart broken, scared, I had a lot of anxiety, I was worried, I felt weak, and I had no idea how I was ever going to come up with the strength. ….

I was just walking around like a zombie..I really had no idea what I was doing.. But the best thing that I did do was leave and get the hell out of t….

If everyone used the Internet to share the things they created themselves, what would that look like? I think it makes objects special again. I guess….

And by banning [smartphones] from the set, the whole crew tends to work tighter with each other. And then it just becomes a thing where people kind o….

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic..

We've got to change our regulatory system..

I've lived my life again just telling it to you..