I refuse to spend my life worrying about what I eat. There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

There is no pleasure worth forgoing just for an extra three years in the geriatric ward.

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.

I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith.

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

A lot happens in 20 years.

I happen to be lucky in that I knew what I wanted to do as far as a career since I was nine years old.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.

Teaching writing over the years intrudes on your own writing in important ways, taking away some of the excitement of poetry.

If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause.

My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with.