I had no idea that such a thing could happen. It never occurred to me.My son told me. He called me and said, "Darling, I just wanted you to know that….

I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world,….

It's better not to try to learn all the lines by rote. It's a very bad idea, in fact. You have to do it by using the process, and as I say, the proce….

Your understanding of another person is limited by what you think you already know. So when you just listen, the person you meet won't match your pre….

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge and its be….

Copyright? Copy RIGHT: Steal ideas, steal facts but do not steal words..

If some crazy idea stays in my head for long enough, then there's no fighting it. I just say, Okay, let's go..

It was one of the great mass achievements of American civilization, and we did it because we thought if you were going to have a democratic form of g….

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are….

I tend to wake up in the middle of the night with ideas crying to be documented..

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated..

This idea of how everything is interconnected, and the impermanence of things.. It sums up the human condition to me, and it helps me on my path..

Well not really to get attention, but to entertain, but you know to show some elements of rural life as well, it kind of blended all in, its kind of ….

Everybody has a different idea of when those good old days were, but everyone is convinced that there was a time when literature really mattered and ….

It's not that we need new ideas, but we need to stop having old ideas..

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the ac….

Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchi….

Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea..

I think, when the African-American community understands my record on criminal justice, my record on economics, the agenda we're bringing forth, rais….

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me, the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are ne….

Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morni….