I can't even imagine having twins.

I don't experience "emotions" then "analyze" them; they always reach me pre-analyzed.

I'm blissfully not writing anything. Just doing a lot of reading and hopefully some thinking as well.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks.

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.

[Hillary] Clinton has also pledged to add a third executive amnesty.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

You can't have people listen to you unless you come to their world and then bring them to yours.

Columbus was the first to come to the east. Vikings don't count, and neither do all the people who were standing on the beaches and waving when he got here.

There are other ways of benefiting than by being a recognized tulku and sitting on a throne.

Alone, he must bear the weight of a sin he dare not confess to the one person he loves…and has lost.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.