Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I come from very common stock, and I've always been uncomfortable with pretension and all the forms it can take, including disingenuous broadcasting.

You can make a new friend but you can't make an old one.

That's what the American odyssey is really about: Leaving home. Leaving home and coming home, and trying to understand the difference.

In the America I see from here, anything is possible - especially the impossible.

Mine is not a story to tell struggling writers.

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

Love is a poem that keeps on writing itself, sweeping us along.

Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

God has clearly called and gifted some people in the church to teach his Word formally.

Stay. Fight. Live. Take it. Cry. Cry. Cry.

Your disability is your opportunity.

Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

I have a muse who's very powerful, but I'm still a hopeless deadbeat of a poet.

All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Remember, for every shot you fire, someone, somewhere, is making money.