As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

Heaven is what we spend our lives trying to find.

The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.

Developing better people should be the number one goal for any coach when dealing with kids. In trying to develop better people, we are going to develop more and better pros.

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.

Why do you always insist on playing while I'm trying to conduct?

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

My nemesis - my downfall, if you will - was relationships, and trying to fulfill them.

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

You don't help people in your poems. I've been trying to help people all my life - that's my trouble.

Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

I worked probably 25 years by myself, just writing and working, not trying to publish much, not giving readings.

I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!