Quotes About Connection

I'm really not into technology at all. My brother has to plug the Xbox in for me.

With 'Girls,' I have been able to plug into almost everything I've felt that's personal and sensitive.

I see theater as a simple formula. Audience plus players plus story makes the play.

Film, you get to go to other locations and live the culture for a little while. You also form a strong bond with your cast, which is a lot of fun. Plus, you only have to live with the character for a couple months at a time.

I like to stay around grounded people, and plus, I'm working so much, I don't get out too much.

The majority of my following is not plus size, it's very diverse.

The way to a man's heart is through his hanky pocket with a breadknife.

One time, a girl dropped her phone in my pocket and I found it and was like, 'There you go.' And she said, 'If you'd had my phone, you'd have had to meet up with me to give it back.'

I want Charo to live with me in my house. I want to have her in my pocket whenever I need cheering up.

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket automatically in search of it.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

We've been in each other's pockets our entire lives.

I take pride in the fact that a guy and a gal can come to my show, have a couple of beers and still go home with a little money in their pockets.

It's what Kitty Carlisle said in her book: Don't interview people about what they do, interview them about what they love. I want my interviews to come out of the side pockets.

To be able to stand on the podium and see one Canadian flag raised is one thing, but to see two, it feels like you're not alone.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

The most exciting thing is to read a poem out loud for the first time.

I want the poem to be an experience - for both the listener and for myself.

The question of sort of music and history, I think, are so important to understanding the poem as an idea but also us as people in the world.

The number of people who read a poem is not as important as how the poem affects those who read it.

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the people listening and watching come back at you in an equally embodied way.

I want to just go to places where writers don't usually go, where people like me don't usually show up, and say, 'Here are some poems. Do they speak to you? What do you hear in them?'

I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.