A huge portion of Trump voters are incredibly pleased with how he's performing. They see what they want to see.

There is such a shelter in each other.

Cargo cults fascinate me partly because Christianity itself is in many ways a cargo cult.

I don't think there's any law where you have to read a poem and immediately understand it.

She was privileged enough to feel at home anywhere, and to equate squalor with authenticity.

Nabokov quote: "I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way.

In fact, lots of good poetry doesn't work , so I don't mind a bit of mystification or difficulty.

Writing a poem is a more personal experience, I think, than writing prose. And perhaps reading a poem is a more personal experience than reading prose, though that's harder to say.

That's what Samuel Johnson said: "Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think particularly fine, strike it out."

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

Tweet others the way you want to want to be tweeted.

I feel like a little kid who just walked into a candy store. I think that's something to smile about.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

I said I wouldn't leave her.

The Silurian Period-the grandest of all the Periods,-and, as yet, apparently the seed-time of all succeeding life.

A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" - find out how he feels about astrology.

A friend of mine once said he like his women like his parmesan: strong smelling and shaved. I don't agree with that, but I don't like hairy women.

There is much to learn about what could happen in the gardens of the future, should designers wish to learn about the past.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.