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I'm open to do a Filipino drama if I like the role or if the plot is attractive to me.

What the devil does the plot signify, except to bring in fine things?

'Paquita' has a patchy history, beginning in 1846, and a patchy plot.

The Book of Revelation is such a dream landscape that you can plug any major conflict in it.

I would have rather been beat by a plumber than Kathy Griffin.

I feel to look for perfection is a very dangerous path. More than that, it's dangerous because it doesn't exist. You can aim for it, but you already know you won't get there because it doesn't exist. Plus, I definitely think the flaws, little cracks, and accidents are a lot more interesting.

There are always pluses and minus to commercialization. It broadcasts something to the masses. So that's the plus. The minus is it may lose some of its meaning if you dilute it.

The American public is rightfully asking, 'Hey, all those funds are coming out of my pocket, so I want to know where they're going.'

If we doubt the power of literature and art to civilise, how come no one has ever been mugged by a person carrying a well-thumbed copy of 'Middlemarch' in his back pocket?

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

It behooves every American to encourage home manufactures, that our oppressors may feel through their pockets the effects of their blind folly.

Well, I think the best form would be to put money directly in the pockets of consumers.

Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just.

A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

Auden is a poet - no, the poet - of unembarrassed intellect. Ideas are his emotions, emotions are his ideas.

The kind of poet who founds and reconstitutes values is somebody like Yeats or Whitman - these are public value-founders.

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever.

I cannot say I'm a poet. That's for someone when they take in consideration where they can bestow 'poet' on. I can't do it. But I would be disingenuous if I didn't say that my intention is poetry.

If it is an imperfect word, no external circumstance can heighten its value as poetry.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.