Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.

I tend to integrate poet and scholar is by ironizing the scholarship. My hope is to disturb that space between the two so they can coexist in a kind of mutual uncertainty.

I admit I keep a clichéd ironic distance with many things in the world, but Brooklyn is not one of them.

When we make a habit of expressing love and gratitude our world expands into something beautiful.

There is no use trying to do Church work without love. A doctor, a lawyer, may do good work without love, but God's work cannot be done without love.

He seemed to think that spanking soled problems instead of taking the time to talk about them.

I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

The greatest all-around American film actor is James Stewart.

Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

I'm a compassionate conservative.

Those who cannot remember clearly their own childhood are poor educators.

The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.

A lot of producers cookie cut movies one after another, but I'll be a little more careful, and have the opportunity to be, because I have the acting career to subsidize the producing.