I always say that a poet loves the world, and the prose writer needs to create an alternative world.

A dysfunctional family is any family with more than one person in it.

Sure the world breeds monsters, but kindness grows just as wild.

Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards.

Ten years, she's dead, and I still find myself some mornings reaching for the phone to call her. She could no more be gone than gravity or the moon.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.

In my godless household, poems were the closest we came to sacred speech -- the only prayers said.

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That's when the sparkle started for me.

I'm doomed to act like myself, even when it's inconvenient!

I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.

Life is not only merriment, It is desire and determination.

As for oblivion, well, we can wait a little while for that.

I don't even think twice about wearing a swimsuit because it's always been a part of my lifestyle.

Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

Hopefully I can become the Babe Ruth of the World Wrestling Federation and be the champion at the same time.

If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage.

There are things in our blood that are just naturally passed down to us, whether we want to recognize them or not.