"Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work. Sacredly. Secretly, and Silently. And those with 'eyes to see and ears to hear' will respond."
"In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip."
"Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet."
"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."
"You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it."
"The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images."
"What is a book of poems if not a collection, or commemoration, of one person's best and happiest hours?"