Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

The creative adult is the child who has survived.

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to unbuild walls.

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

You're not to blame, it's them for not understanding

The powerlessness of people with pure intentions, in the long run, can sometimes be more powerful than power in the hands of those blinded or depraved by evil tempers.

Prosperity starts in ones heart not their pocket.

You are the sweetest thug I've ever known.

I like to tell myself that truth is in the irregularity and the unexpected, and I try to look for both.

To believe when all means fail is exceedingly pleasing to God and is most acceptable.

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

I am calling for common sense gun safety measures to protect people.

John Wayne represents more force, more power, than anybody else on the screen.

As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.