I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human.

I think about the body kind of all the time, being as how I'm really uncomfortable in mine.

I like having a phrase lying around to get poems started. It's like having a key.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.

I just can't write and listen to music at the same time.

I actually can't listen to music and write poetry at the same time, but I do kind of think about the music I've been listening to when I write.

I don't know that I find either aspect of Jesus more interesting than the other, although maybe I think about the God one more.

I'm always glad that other people are way smarter about my poems than I am.

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year.

I think I cause a lot of headaches for editors - it's impossible to keep up with the ridiculous amount of changes I make.

I wanted to be a composer for a while, and for a while, and maybe still, I found writing music much easier than writing poetry. So maybe my brain clings to it.

The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a piece of ground: the knowledge became a visitable place.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen.

What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.

I don't like talking to people I KNOW, but strangers, I have no problem with.

She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings.

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

I always think there are people looking not so much for information as for reassurance and reaffirmation of their views.