Being so deeply rooted in one place and culture allows a genuine writer to experiment wildly with the material without ever losing touch with its essence.

There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

Money. You don't know where it's been, but you put it where your mouth is. And it talks!

The new year always brings us what we want Simply by bringing us along—to see A calendar with every day uncrossed, A field of snow without a single footprint.

Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.

Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.

Teach us the names of what we have destroyed.

My blessed California, you are so wise. You render death abstract, efficient, clean. Your afterlife is only real estate, And in his kingdom Death must stay unseen.

Poetry is not a creed or dogma. It is a special way of speaking and listening.

What we conceal Is always more than what we dare confide. Think of the letters that we write our dead.

To speak from a particular place and time is not provincialism but part of a writer's identity.

Let everywritertell hisownliesThat's freedomof thepress.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust straw and feathers.

Many of us are alarmed at the skyrocketing cost of medical care, including patients, who are the consumers. However, medical malpractice is not the reason for these increasing costs.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

It is difficult to find another branch of knowledge where a small amount of study produces such great results in increased efficiency in a country where the people rule, as in parliamentary law.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

Prayer is simply talking to God like a friend and should be the easiest thing we do each day.

Working with my hands keeps me sane.