“Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long befo...” — Robert Pinsky Quote

“Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.”

“I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.”

“All questions of process require an answer that begins with a very important sentence, and the sentence is: 'Everybody is different.' Whatever way of working you name - methodical, haphazard, gets up early in the morning, sleeps all day, works at night, revises immensely, never revises at all - someone has made great work with that way.”

“There's no way I can justify my salary level, but I'm learning to live with it.”

“I can pretty much justify anything as work if I'm reading the news or whatever.”

“It is a struggle for the minds of the people... No cause justifies recourse to terrorism.”