A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

I often think of the space of a page as a stage, with words, letters, syllable characters moving across.

There’s a level at which words are spirit and paper is skin. That’s the fascination of archives. There’s still a bodily trace.

Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?

I need this wild life, this freedom.

In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious

There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others.

I have two bikes: a classic 1978 Yamaha SR500 and a more modern Suzuki SV650. I've been into cars and bikes since I was tiny.

I want to keep playing good golf.

Empty words almost echo within themselves

Just to set the record straight, a salary for a given on-screen performance does not include the right to invade anyone’s privacy, to destroy someone’s sense of self.

Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.

We do have treaty obligations with our NATO allies.

Suicide is a privilege of man which deity does not possess.