I can't move my body slowly. I can't move the line slowly. So I end up with way too much, often opaque to me later.

Our mind is dark in some way, and so we use rhetoric as a kind of prop or foil.

I can't remember the past, or I can't see very clearly, or I've gotten older and the person I was isn't there anymore, and the place I grew up isn't where I live now.

Looking out a window from different vantage points changes what you see and therefore what you write.

A number of poems don't work alone. They need to fit together to work.

I spend a lot of time revising. I'm not somebody who can move slowly.

Each of us is present, but partially.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

I'm really interested in what you remember, how you remember, what your perspective is as opposed to somebody else's.

Even your own memory changes over time because of circumstances or even because your body changes.

If it's a drop of dew, it will dissolve.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

There is a reasonthat the worldis not black and white, for chaosdemands color.

Where there is lasting love there is a family.

The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on - because the reader certainly will.

Don't stop moving - the best time of your life is just around the corner!

Faith is taking God seriously.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.

It's not that I don't see myself as hot and sexy. Don't get me wrong. No, it's not that.

I thank God for Elvis Presley. I thank the Lord for sending Elvis to open the door so I could walk down the road.

The fad diets that many Americans are on are perfect if you want to be hungry all the time and miserable.