I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power whether vested in many or a few is ever grasping and like the grave cries 'Give give.'

What none of the critics positive or negative grasped was that 'The Searchers' was a different kind of Western something much darker and more disturbing than the usual fare.

Poetry always runs away from you - it's very difficult to grasp it and every time you read it depending on your conditions you will have a different grasp of it. Whereas with a novel once you have read it you have grasped it.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

No poem is easily grasped so why should any reader expect fast results?

When I look back on my childhood I think of that short time in Beirut. I know that seeing the city collapse around me forced me to grasp something many people miss: the fragility of peace.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

I find that you learn from others. It's very much about watching TV and watching movies for me and grasping that way and watching other people act.