A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

The Ladybug wears no disguises. She is just what she advertises. A speckled spectacle of spring, A fashion statement on the wing.... A miniature orange kite. A tiny dot-to-dot delight.

Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns.

Poetry is the tunnel at the end of the light.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

Spotted Park Bench I am a park bench. Ordinary words cannot express my thoughts on birds.

Poetry is frosted fire.

Libraries Are Neccessary Gardens, Unsurpassed At Growing Excitement

Poetry is prose, bent out of shape.

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own.

I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin.

If you die, angel, it means I'm already dead.

On the radio, turned low, Reba sang of hard times with the full authority of a cross-eyed redheaded millionaire.

Above all things never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

It's difficult to overcome what you're getting beamed into your brain by the television every day. The worthlessness of journalism today is just making the country confused and bewildered and lost.

Even with a round table, some people always seem able to sit at the head of it.

If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

I love filming in Britain.

Zen is not, in my view, philosophy or mysticism. It is simply a practice of readjustment of nervous activity. That is, it restores the distorted nervous system to its normal functioning.

My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god.