The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.

It doesn't get better, it doesn't get worse, but it sure gets different!

I look forward to working with UNICEF as they continue to make the world a better place for children.

Shakespeare will not make us better, and he will not make us worse, but he may teach us how to overhear ourselves when we talk to ourselves... he may teach us how to accept change in ourselves as in others, and perhaps even the final form of change.

I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike , and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two , are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.