"The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."

"A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good."

"The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."

"Especially in the car ride to and from gym. I find myself spacing out a lot, just visualizing what the Olympics would be like and just having such great role models."

"Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself."

"There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life - really! But even those movies that I'd like to forget teach me things."

"Wisdom principle 22 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 2."