Everyone has their wings, it just so happens that mine are black.

The greatest solution of all is to live and work in partnership with yourself, your family and friends, your work and community, your nation, your world, nature, and spirit.

For the way of the comets is the poet's way.

Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth.

I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.

The ones who disappoint you need you the most.

Obviously my best strategy is to wait, listen, and learn.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

I would not like it thought that I do not buy my own paperclips, sir. I enjoy owning my own paperclips. It means they are mine.