Pastoral Resources

The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.

At the age of 18 all young poets are sure they will be dead at 21 - of old age.

I feel like I could be likened to an old hound circling on a rug for the last five years.

I was just 20 years old when I wrote Broken Arrow.

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

I've got a new relationship and I'm trapped in this old life.

It occurred to me, when I was old enough to make rules of my own, that they should be fair and simple.

The best mirror is an old friend.

Why should someone have to retrain themselves to use a new application that does the same basic thing as the old application, just because something as trivial as the operating system changed out from under them?

While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.

When I was old enough to ride a motorcycle and got my license, I bought a '69 Sportster.

Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.

I am what you might call abstractly anti-capitalist. For instance, I am suspicious of the old leftists who focus all their hatred on the United States. What about Chinese neo-colonialism? Why are the left silent about that? When I say this, it annoys them, of course. Good!

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

I think we grew up thinking that the funniest things on TV were the old, serious movies. I always liked the Marx Brothers, but the thing that always made us laugh were movies like Zero Hour. That's what inspired us.

If I'd known how old I was going to be I'd have taken better care of myself.