Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.

One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

I read the bible every day and the one thing I have noticed is that those characters that are closest to God seem to be the ones who question and wonder and think more than others.

I would never understand photography, the sneaky, murderous taxidermy of it.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

A lot of my love of literature comes from Oz and Alice.

My approach is just being conscious of everything.

I consider myself a relatively moral guy

When I say "I," I mean a thing absolutely unique, not to be confused with any other.