You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat bu….

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each othe….

Screenwriters get paid a hell of a lot more money but their level of frustration seems to be so high that I don't want that..

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded..

Holiness consists simply in doing God's will, and being just what God wants us to be..

The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the w….

I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't..

I want to paint big, bright, optimistic pictures of the place I love..

Like, a song could be really tricky and intricate and be really intellectually stimulating, but I don't think that's the song that that I'm going to ….

If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail..

What song is it you want to hear?.

I want to make new and interesting music out of pop music in a way that isn't ironic. I want to stay sincere to the source material but at the same t….

Words are such a poor medium when you really want someone to feel something..

I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength..

What we have is a gift from Him. What we do with what we have is our gift to him.

I teach a lecture course on American poetry to as many as 150 students. For a lot of them, its their only elective, so this is their one shot. Theyll….

Why do people want everyone to act just like they do? Talk like they do. Look like they do. Act like they do. And if you don't— If you don't, people ….

Keep your coins, I want change..

All workers want is a fair shake..

I honestly just want to make myself happy most, and if other people like it, then that's great. If they don't, then I'm still happy..

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself..