At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

Poets are like steam valves, where the ordinary feelings of ordinary people can escape and be shown.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

Writing or making anything-a poem, a bird feeder, a chocolate cake-has self-respect in it. You're working. You're trying. You're not lying down on the ground, having given up.

There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

I did not know him, I knew my idea of him.

The older I get, the more I feel.

I have learned to get pleasure from speaking of pain

I didn't have time to sit down and look at the work of a year and choose what to type.

o endure the cross is not tragedy

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Nothing makes me roll my eyes faster than a "Coexist" bumper sticker.

When a customer receives a dish, they get food and design at the same time.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Paper is my best friend and paper seller is my worst friend!

Let's win one for the Gipper.

Eminem. My son was listening to that and I was like, “What is that junk?” Then I started listening and I thought, You know, that kid is pretty good. It's the storytelling.

I’m the only fire that can live in the rain

Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later.