My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
From what the moderns want, we must learn what poetry should become; from what the ancients did, what poetry must be.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.
If you want to have a relationship, at some point you have to let yourself get caught. That's what I did. I got caught.
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals.
The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's 'How are your parents doing?'
I think everybody faces challenges in their lives. I've definitely been through it - not to the extreme that Astrid did. I try to keep some kind of identity and strength.
When I was younger, I did not have the strength to jump well enough, but over the years I have gained that, worked on it. But the sensibility you simply have to have.
I think all those people I did stories about measured their own success by the joy their work was giving them.
When I did have a little bit of commercial success, it really didn't suit my temperament at all. I'm a terrible public person.
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.
I stopped painting in 1990 at the peak of my success just to deny people my beautiful paintings, and I did it out of spite.
It did not occur to us that the Marxists' solution was fraudulent or that their vision was distorted, that whatever the wrongs in our society it was not the ideology of theirs that will cure them.
America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.
I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher.
When I started DJ'ing, it was no big thing. There was no money in DJ'ing, and you did it purely for the love of playing music.
I love turning on the computer in the morning and reading the things that I did the day before - that I didn't do!
