I love new questions..

Art's a staple. Like bread or wine or a warm coat in winter. Those who think it is a luxury have only a fragment of a mind. Man's spirit grows hungry….

it was a bitter and biting iron-gray afternoon, that clanked like armor and was as cold as a frosty axehead..

Hope is really a thought..

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..

I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one case, shaken by the impact of the….

If you've ever made up something on the spot and made somebody laugh, you can credit Jonathan Winters with inspiration..

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..

Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in ….

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show..

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

I always knew I would adopt. Always..

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else..

Friends take up time, and I didn't have time..