For young adults, the growth from silly to serious can be very fast, indeed.

What makes a man move, From comforts left behind, Then put motion toAdventures of the mind.

Wine is bottled poetry

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

All men love themselves.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

There has, indeed, been very substantial progress in Iraq over the past year - violence is down by 80 percent, civilian deaths by about the same, and so on.

Poetry exists partly to undermine the certainties of an accepted intellectual system, by opening a fissure of awareness at which the reality of the unconquered world may enter.

Use your imagination and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I'm a big Backstreet Boys fan. I always give y'all shoutouts. I love the things y'all do.

Here's the secret of writing: there is no secret.

A kingdom is not lost by a single defeat.