I hear poetry whenever I turn on the radio. Eminem is a better poet than just about everybody. He's better than Billy Collins; he's better than Richard Wilbur; he's better than me.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.

Life is a constant struggle between being an individual and being a member of the community.

If you teach kids how to tell stories, they have a better chance at everything.

What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Don't live up to your stereotypes.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.

Do you know why the Indian rain dances always worked? Because the Indians would keep dancing until it rained.

A Beautiful verse takes birth when "U"n"I" VERSE.

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth.

Knowledge evolves, understanding matures and wisdom progresses. Don't be so hung up on what you think you know.

I still want to be angry, but I have to let my anger go.

No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

Though the strength is lacking, yet the willingness is commendable.

Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

If I get too comfortable, I will wake one morning and everything around me will have shifted overnight. All I knew? I know no longer. And all I had? Vanished in an instant.

I guess sometimes God just needs to laugh