I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music..

We live in a thinly veiled misogynistic society..

Learn to speak by listening..

See the gift that change delivers..

I love new questions..

Hope is really a thought..

Most of us recognize how important it is to listen respectfully when our loved ones are talking; but we often forget that it is equally important to ….

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for..

I really liked it best when I was a nobody..

But we can't go back. We can only go forward..

Just listening to Pac, ain't gon' make it stop A rebel in your thoughts, ain't gon' make it halt If you don't become an actor, you'll never be a ….

Don't be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life..

I came to what I think of as the critical problem: the aging process of a piece of music. I noticed in the '70s that pieces I wrote would sound great….

I'm always relearning things I thought I'd learned for good a while back..

Words, however, are things..

Let's kill somebody to Sinatra! Or to early Elvis!.

There seemed nothing to do but live..

I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity..

Faith must be worked at..

The more it changes, the more it's the same thing..

We had the same doomsday people when we were building the MGM Grand, same people, same doomsday. You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to peo….