I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict and I think it surfaced in many of my works.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky either your relationship works or it doesn't.

I always want to have a personal relationship with everybody that works for me.

I shoot people in a way that makes the audience feel equal to them. And it's hard to express and it's hard to execute but I think it works on every level - the choice of the material the choice of the actor my relationship with the actor and so on.

What works in a relationship of very public people is not making the relationship public - keeping it as personal as it can be. It's the only way it is real.

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye creating works of psychic and physical power.

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

To protect people's lives and keep our children safe we must implement public-works spending and do so proudly. If possible I'd like to see the Bank of Japan purchase all of the construction bonds that we need to issue to cover the cost. That would also forcefully circulate money in the market. That would be positive for the economy too.

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works great. If it doesn't no problem.

It would be great if politics were fact-based but it is not and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution not the country.

When times are tough constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world cooperation works better. After all nobody's right all the time and a broken clock is right twice a day.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

In my opinion the most significant works of the twentieth century are those that rise beyond the conceptual tyranny of genre they are at the same time poetry criticism narrative drama etc.

I think I'm a very good reader of poetry but obviously like everybody I have a set of criteria for reading poems and I'm not shy about presenting them so if people ask for my critical response to a poem I tell them what works and why and what doesn't work and why.

Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language.

Narrative art the novel from Murasaki to Proust has produced great works of poetry.

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets workshop poets promising poets lovesick poets university poets and a few real poets.

Society has arisen out of the works of peace the essence of society is peacemaking.

We tried war we tried aggression we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace as a science of human relations not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

I'm on the board of directors for Peace Now which works tirelessly between the Palestinians and the Israelis to create peace in the Middle East and we've never been closer.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

One is called to live nonviolently even if the change one works for seems impossible.

A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.