A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried.

One of the ridiculous aspects of being a poet is the huge gulf between how seriously we take ourselves and how generally we are ignored by everybody else.

The mind can be trained to relieve itself on paper.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Nationalism is a type of insanity in which the boundaries of a land replace God.

In the process of simplifying oneself, one often discovers the thing called voice.

Write the poem only you can write.

But my heart is always propped up in a field on its tripod, ready for the next arrow.

But tonight, the lion of contentment has placed a warm heavy paw on my chest.

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

So many names, there is barely room on the walls of the heart.

I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of the mirrors collapsed down on top of me. The impact caused the world around me to vanish.

Until we learn to honor and respect what other people believe, I think we are doomed.

Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you're over here like this? Calvin:...I don't think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.

The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment.

I've played for crowds as small as 30 people. As long as people want to see me play then I'll perform.

It’s sweet. All this trouble for a kitty.

The people who get places in life just say yes to everything.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

It's frustrating when you want to play but can't. I didn't touch a racket for three weeks and when I started playing again last week, I still felt some pain in my wrist.

...when I was angry at God because I couldn't go to my son, hold him, and comfort him, God's son was holding my son in his lap.