Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

Strengthen your heart muscles by removing the sufferings of others.

...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all.

Never ask people. Not about your work. Don't you know what you want? How can you stand it, not to know?

For some to love you, some must loathe you.

Snapshots, moments, mere seconds: as fragile and beautiful and hopeless as a single butterfly, flapping on against a gathering wind.

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

Gratitude is a dialysis of sorts... it flushes the self-pity out of our systems.

It's more important to do the right thing than to do things right.

I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.