God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
“We have a training period; we have certain guidelines and structure. You can't hire talented people and stifle them. That's not the way it works anymore.”
“If poetry alters the way in which the reader views the world, then it has had its desired effect.”