As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.

Public work does not cut into personal creativity. They are streams from the same river but with different destinations.

I started writing poetry because language was how I understood the world. It was a paradigm that made everything matter and in forms that were safe to hold what I felt.

I get a huge energy transfusion from listening to poets read their works.

I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.

If anything, hearing another poet is a sacred experience I enter, but I can honestly say this does not influence my own work.

I am a product of the "Hippie" theater movement of the '60s.

Oh my God. Lift me up out of this illusion, Lord. Heal my perception that I might know only reality and only you.

Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

After the door of a woman's heart has once swung on its silent hinges, a man thinks he can prop it open with a brick and go away and leave it.

There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

Provided that God be glorified, we must not care by whom.

Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.